Word: denser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japan, the disclosures aroused howls of "Kuroi kiri!" (black mist or political corruption). In the U.S., a kind of black mist has been swirling around corporate-Government connections too, and it got denser last week. Deputy Defense Secretary William P. Clements Jr. told a joint House-Senate committee that Northrop has paid back to the Air Force $564,013 for "improper costs" on contracts-apparently representing political contributions for which Northrop had quietly charged the Pentagon. But Clements was embarrassed by the subcommittee's disclosure of the names of 55 more Pentagon personnel who had been guests of military...
...complex temporal problems. Love, intuition and spirituality help somewhat but we have gotten ourselves into an economic and social interplay of forces which requires some intellectual delicacy and foresight to keep in place. Intellectuals possess substantial powers of reason and ought to be willing to use them in the denser underbrush of a complex society instead of only in its airy reaches...
Only Roy Reed's stories on the South consistently display a denser, more individualistic prose. His story on black families making a Christmas pilgrimage by train back to their old homes in the South is one of the best in the collection. Jon Nordheimer writes with a restrained power and simplicity, particularly in his forceful piece on the Congressional Medal of Honor veteran who was shot while robbing a grocery store...
...downzoning, which Harvard opposed, limits the University to construction no higher than 35 feet and no denser than 36 units an acre. The interim report on University expansion had listed the Agassiz land as a potential development site for new dormitories...
...structured by film-makers. In order to do this, however, he has had to make an unusually structured film, writing out every word of dialogue and thinking out each shot beforehand. Eustache's script repays careful attention even when it seems most banal, and his meaning gets denser as the film goes...