Word: convex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pontiac will be longer, lower, will sprout tail fins. Headlights will be more widely spaced; the scooped-out rear fenders will now be convex...
...youth, with every tooth in his cheeky cheek, right off, mind you-RINSE!"). Nugent's bland mixture of pathos, petulance and salt was especially savory when he gave himself a frank appraisal, found his face looking like a "leftover artichoke," his teeth "dropping like loose buttons," his body "convex where it should be concave-or have I got my cons mixed?" He had a high old time with his waitress (Sarah Marshall) in a Greenwich Village spaghetti joint, enjoyed a good cry and a good talk "about everything from her cradle to my grave." Seeing things at last...
...replacement. Gillies makes an incision from below the armpit, across the abdomen, around the navel and back again. With the flesh thus released, he constructs a tube pedicle flap,* and as he brings it around to the side of the missing breast, the inside-out navel (concave to convex) takes the place of the nipple. After this surgery, a woman has an abdominal scar but no deformity. In some patients, as a result of an embryonic failure, a breast may be missing, with only a nipple present; in such cases, Surgeon Gillies has built a mound of tissue under...
...satisfy oculists who wanted sunglasses made darker, and to meet the Army-Navy Vision Committee's preference for glasses that do not distort colors, the L. J. Houze Convex Glass Co. announced an all-purpose "Natural View" lens. The result of years of testing chemical combinations to get the right color, the glass can be made into drugstore models or ground into prescription lenses...
...nine children or his second wife, Dorelia MacNeill, to whom he refers simply as "D." The best nuggets are his painter's-eye-view comments on his famed sitters. "[Bernard] Shaw's head," says John, "had two aspects, as he pointed out himself: the concave and the convex . . . When I informed him of my fee, [Shaw exclaimed], 'What! Do you mean to say you work for so paltry a sum?' But before I had time to revise my charges, the cheque was written and handed over...