Word: angularities
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...find angular rocks such as the rioters used in that part of the city," Miss Osgood was quoted as saying...
...combine fun with the power play." At 46, her skin has been lightly bronzed by the sun of Bar Harbor summers and Palm Beach winters. She is 5 ft. 8 in., scarcely an inch shorter than her husband. Her hair, rinsed a soft honey blonde, frames an angular face with high cheekbones. Long, curling lashes fringe blue eyes with just a touch of green in them. Her mouth is wide-too wide-but when she smiles or contorts it in the often losing battle with an English phrase, it is her most arresting feature...
...roars aloft, and to jaded Florida bird watchers, the Atlas-Agena that lifted off last week was far from novel. But this time the familiar workhorse carried a brand-new payload: its nose was fitted with two icosahedrons (two-sided solid figures) about 4 ft. in diameter. And the angular cargo was destined to play a large part in policing the cold...
There are 136 pyramidal ceiling reflectors for sound, but no one is eager to tinker with them. At its opening, Scharoun's new hall seemed acoustically excellent as Von Karajan filled its angular spaces with squiggles of sound from softest pianissimo to heftiest fortissimo, leading his firstchair men through a delicate movement of a Haydn string quartet and then the full orchestra through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Critics breathed sighs of relief over the splendid sound-function, it seemed, had not been betrayed by revolutionary form...
...Hooray for recognizing the stifling boredom of four unbroken walls!" exclaimed one girl in approving the complicated and angular room shape. Whereupon another girl wrote. "I'm beginning to feel like a mouse in a maze and I've only been here two minutes. What we need is space--not imaginative obstructions...