Word: braced
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...killers and third-generation welfare families. That is not quite the Hunts Point I was raised in, although it was hardly elm trees and picket fences. We kept our doors and windows locked. I remember a steel rod running from the back of our front door to a brace on the floor so that no one could push in the door. Burglaries were common. Drug use was on the rise. Yet crime and violence in those days did not begin to suggest the social breakdown depicted in Fort Apache. That was yet to come...
Ferrara is back at the reins of the Crimson offense this season, though, by his own admission, he is a step slower. A black, metal and plastic brace, padded in both the back and front, announces the reconstructive anterior cruciate ligament surgery and months of rehab about which the Crimson signal-caller now seems unfazed...
...involvement." Earlier today, Senators questioned Secret Service agent Henry O'Neill, who had vivid recollections of Williams, the night Foster died, "carrying, in her arms and her hands what I would describe as file folders. She walked past me . . . and started to enter her office, and she had to brace the folders on her arms against a cabinet. She came out a few moments later and locked her office." ButWilliams has denied removing anything from Foster's office that night,and the White House says she has passed two lie detector tests...
...Nothing is there merely because it "was there." Mark Rothko hated diagonals, but loved Hopper's. Richard Diebenkorn loved diagonals and loved Hopper's too. As well anyone might: the diagonal, the slanting patch (especially of light) becomes a wonderfully expressive element in Hopper, acting both as a structural brace for the actual painted surface and as a sign of fugitive reality in imagined space. In Morning Sun, 1952, you are acutely aware that Jo, the long-limbed, middle-aged woman staring at nothing in particular from her bed, will move in a moment, that the patch of light will...
...Bosnia, and pilots take evasive maneuvers to avoid being fired upon. But to eliminate the threat, nato planes would have to attack the air-defense network, a step the alliance is not prepared to take. As long as the air defenses are allowed to operate, the nato allies should brace themselves for more pilots being shot down...