Word: aslant
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...writers have more cause for mourning the end of the cold war than Tom Clancy. Starting with The Hunt for Red October (1984), his five thrillers, heavy on technology and all bearing directly or aslant on the threat of superpower confrontation, have sold 28 million copies. His Clear and Present Danger appeared in 1989 and, astonishingly, went on to become the top-selling novel...
Surveying 15 wells chosen at random, the engineers found 13 aslant by 40° to 56°-enough to carry them comfortably into nearby producing pools owned by major operators. "You can draw your own conclusions," barked Commission Chairman William J. Murray, as he ordered the survey broadened to cover the wells of 60 East Texas operators...
...hand pressed flat and white against the black skirt, the other holding the script before her, she read the Queen's description of Ophelia's drowning in a soft, haunting voice. "There is a willow grows aslant a brook...
...this device, Olivier sometimes even manages to enhance the language. Ophelia's description of Hamlet's "madness" (As I was sewing in my closet) gives the two of them a lovely passage of pantomime, never played before. Ophelia's drowning (There is a willow grows aslant a brook) is derived from the Millais painting, and improves...
Through the rain a company of battle-seasoned Philippine Scouts slopped up toward the Bataan front, rifles aslant. Against the downpour they held their heads high. They had a reason. Leading them, just out of the hospital and headed for more Japs, was their company commander, Captain Arthur Wermuth of Chicago, the One-Man Army of Bataan (TIME...
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