Word: annealed
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...quarter-century since the creation of Israel. That trust, for now at least, rests largely in the power of the U.S., which Nixon, for all his difficulties at home, still embodies. Nixon's visit, as Alexander Haig, his chief of staff, puts it, "is designed to anneal what has already happened, to reassure both sides of our willingness to play a constructive role, while realizing that it's a matter for the parties themselves to work...
...British lady journalist "had never seen mascara perhaps but, in a quietly topographical way it had seen almost everything else": a pale, 40-year-old lawyer is a member of a generation "that had been schooled so tonelessly free of prejudices that it had nothing left with which to anneal its convictions." Only rarely is there a flawed word, erring on the side of fancied precision; Miss Calisher is the sort who might say, for instance, "percipient" instead of "perceptive...
...town where the Times is one of the few enduring institutions, Norman Chandler knows better than to try to wield an overpowering political club. Today's Los Angeles is too amorphous for one man to rule, one newspaper to command,* or even one political organization to anneal. The Times itself is conservative, and, says Chandler, proud of it. "But no one can force anybody down anybody else's throat in this area. That's because we not only don't have, but can't have, anything resembling machine politics. If there's a bloc...
...Concentrate heat in small areas even deep within the insides of larger objects-to bake, dry, glue, stitch, anneal, weld, rivet...
Early American Music was a scream from the same eagle. Opera was popular in every major city. In Philadelphia Andrew Adgate projected, in 1786, a great choral concert, with singers from every section of Philadelphia society. His grandiose plan, which fizzled, was to anneal all social disparities through the use of "solfa," the powerful archaic open scale which artisans and farmers still knew from the Middle Ages, but which the musically literate upper classes had begun to scorn. In Boston the one-eyed crippled tanner, William Billings, was even bolder. He got the cello into church, and the much more...
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