Word: distort
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doth distort the military situation...
...objects in view. Because it can transfix a scene with minute detail, people expect photography to reflect the world for future reference in a rational way, of course. Film doesn't have texture like oil paint, dimension like sculpture. One can't avoid or escape reality on film, only distort it, so still pictures make dubious art by some people. Maybe this book will change their minds. It lets one see some beauty in a frame house where the wood slats are like ribs against skin. It lets one share a view that urges more than the registration...
...found that stimulating the cerebellum electrically apparently increases its inhibitory action on the cerebrum. Cooper has implanted electronic "pacemakers" upon the cerebellums of several epileptics, as well as patients suffering from stroke-caused paralysis, cerebral palsy and from dystonia, a neuromuscular defect in which permanently flexed muscles twist and distort the limbs. The device, which stimulates the cerebellum with low-voltage jolts, has produced relief in most of the 70 cases in which it has been used. One muscular 26-year-old man suffered from daily epileptic seizures before he came to Cooper for a pacemaker. Since the machine...
Regrettably, however, there is nothing unique about Mr. Swanson's final solution of the Chilean truck driver problem. It simply marks the logical culmination of a systematic campaign to distort the facts about the Allende regime and its overthrow...
...taping seems fair only when all parties to a conversation are aware that their words are being recorded. This may hinder candor somewhat, but so does the presence of a notetaker. When only the President is aware of the listening devices, he is in a position to manipulate and distort the historical record with self-serving or misleading statements...