Word: askew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crest of the bridge: a brief, soaring pitch with all four wheels off the ground, then a jolt as the car settled to the roadway again-then a strong foot on the gas for the next hill. But Driver Wilder never made the hill. His Allard smacked down askew on the roadway, veered, skidded up a bank and turned over. Driver Wilder, his skull crushed, was killed instantly...
...study periods, he would spring from his seat to pace about the rear of the classroom, a book in his hand. He never cared what his classmates thought of him, or how he looked, or whether his shoelaces were tied. Nor does he care today: his tie is frequently askew, his suits (he has four) slightly wrinkled. He lapped up mythology ("Vulcan," he wrote at eleven, "was the god of goldsmiths, ironsmiths, leadsmiths, silversmiths, coppersmiths, brassmiths and Mrs. Smiths-there, now, I'm all out of breath"). He harassed the public library for Shakespeare, George Moore...
When the young have been banished, and Melvyn Douglas, Polly Rowles and Philip Loeb perform as the husband, the wife and the bank president, the play takes on a nice aimless, bantering good humor. But things are a bit askew when a plot must go out for a walk before the play...
...them with this extreme accuracy is fantastically difficult. When measured by these high standards, even massive steel bars seem as flexible as rubber. Thin films of oil are as yielding as deep quicksand. The slightest change of temperature makes the machine change its dimensions and thus rule the lines askew...
...thinks nothing of flying 7,000 miles in four days, starting his sessions with Sears store managers at 5:45 a.m. sharp, and whirling through stores, speeches, conferences, until everyone else is ready to drop. His clothes are often rumpled, his shoes unshined, his collar open and his tie askew. He wears a battered hat atop his silvery head and a topcoat that looks as if it came off the pile at Sears-which it did. He munches, instead of smokes, cigarettes. Despite his breakneck pace, Wood is still pink-cheeked and healthy...