Word: annealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
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