Word: circularity
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...approaches are deceptively peaceful. Water buffaloes patiently drag plows through the flooded rice fields; wiry little peasant women in circular straw hats, chocolate-colored jackets and black trousers pitpat swiftly along the roads in bare feet, carrying produce to market in baskets balanced on poles over their shoulders. As my jeep left the road and followed the twisting, hedged lane that led to Bai Trang, war -or preparations for war-sprang to view. A rough stone wall protected the village. It bore the crudely painted inscription: "Da dao bon pha dinh pha dinh chua ro nha" (Down with...
Quick with a Hook. In short, The Little Princesses has only slightly more human interest and gossip value than a Court Circular. But it is written in a much more affable style, and since the book concerns one of the world's best-loved families it is almost certain to become a bestseller. The best of the book is a small body of anecdote that Author Crawford retails with all the backstairs skill of an experienced court attendant. Items...
...city he would head straight for mosquitoes, poison ivy and a bull that wanted to gore Junior. He would travel by car, visit a national park if he could, and a relative if he couldn't avoid it, and almost always he would drive clockwise around a circular or elliptical route...
...Reliefer," feels uneasy about the underhanded tactics of his party, but is caught up in a web from which he can never escape. After Fort abandons "Relief," his former cronies publicly denounce him as Rachel's seducer. The dirt becomes even thicker when Jeremiah mysteriously receives a circular signed by Fort in which Rachel is charged with having given herself to a Negro slave. For Jeremiah, pressed by the inhuman necessities of politics and the all-too-human taunts of his wife, there is no longer a choice...
Inside, though, the Assembly building will be elaborately functional. Its central, circular meeting room, capped by a shallow dome, will have tiers of balconies, press boxes and television booths. Built to hold 850 delegates, 900 spectators and 350 reporters, it will supply everyone present with a fixed receiver for listening to translations of what goes on. Delegates' desks will have mikes as well, and a pushbutton voting system. If all goes well, U.N. delegates will be settling into their new desks by the spring...