Word: deform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hurricane with a maximum width as much as three times the earth's diameter. University of Arizona Astronomer Bradford A. Smith was both awed and puzzled by these storms: "It's as if each of these things has a life of its own. You can stretch them, deform them and even break them apart, and they still have an inner cohesion that keeps them together...
...present situation-a continuing white sense of living under siege, a continuing black fever of resentment-cannot go on indefinitely without serious damage to the country. Fear would spread like slow poison (and, among other things, would deter investment from abroad). Sooner or later, the jailed always deform the jailers...
...bodybuilding flick. Although not a muscle beach spectacular featuring Mike Marvel and his "he-man" friends (in six weeks you can look like this or your money back), the film also would disappoint anyone hoping for an incisive psychological examination of why men would suffer so much pain to deform their bodies. In quasi-documentary form, Pumping Iron cleverly hypes bodybuilding and its main character, Arnold Schwarznegger...
...become well known as a designer and cartoonist: "I guess you could call me a critic of society, all societies-but especially the wasteful consumer society. My defense against the aggressiveness of objects is derision, humor. I deal with objects everyone is familiar with, like a hammer. I deform them and people get a shock. Children react the best, intellectuals second best...
...circular railroad-type track in only nine minutes. Its plate-and-mesh reflector can be tilted 90° from a point directly overhead to the horizon in only half that time. Furthermore, the telescope has been so meticulously designed that the stresses caused by such movements deform its reflector by no more than about four-hundredths of an inch, an important factor in maintaining a sharp "image." Not the least of the antenna's advantages is its site: located at the bottom of a tree-lined valley, it should be well shielded by the surrounding hills from commercial microwaves...