Word: compacting
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...large car is not a matter of choice or status for those of us with four or more children; our families will not physically fit into compact cars. Any time we go anywhere at all with the whole family, a large car is an expensive necessity, not a luxurious frill...
...gradually learned by a young Anglican vicar, Mark Brian. He is fatally ill but does not know it, and has been sent to the village by his bishop to "learn enough of life to be ready to die." Much of Mark's story is presented as a marvelously compact and compelling semidocumentary. The reader meets the old and the young of the village, learns that much of the tribe's food is customarily spread with a kind of butter called gleena, made from slow-boiled candlefish, and is convinced that the elders mysteriously know whenever a stranger...
...weren't enough to be bothered with these days, now the owners of small cars are persecuting the owners of larger cars because we are taking all of their gas. As for myself, I'd rather take my chances of survival in a larger car than a compact, especially on the New Jersey Turnpike. And it does seem strange that there are full oil tankers cruising up and down the Delaware River with no place to deposit their cargo...
...Kissinger seems to be aiming at is a global deal under which oil-burning countries would guarantee Arab and other producers a high price for a long period in return for assurances of adequate supplies and no further price escalation. The process of trying to work out such a compact will probably begin with Nixon's inviting representatives of oil consumers to one or more conferences; later, producer officials would be asked to join. Diplomats offer only illustrative figures, but one indicates that the consumers might offer to pay $10, $12 or even $14 per bbl. for perhaps...
...discovered a fresh convention. Since the chill goddesses of the Fontainebleau school in the 16th century, the nude in French art had retained some measure of Gothic proportion- elongated torso, small high breasts - and a distinct aura of remoteness. Boucher's nude was small, full and rounded: a compact little machine à plaisir, borne up like a plump rose on tumultuous puffs of cloud or sprawled, replete with the matter-of-fact enjoyment of her own narcissism, on a tangled day bed. Indeed Louis XV's true escutcheon was the round, dimpled bottom of Boucher's favorite...