Word: distortive
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...America firmly believes it must be heard if the values responsible for our national greatness are not to be obscured. TIME has been fair in granting this conscience a voice from "time to time," and especially by making the necessary distinction between it and fanatical extremists who twist and distort what honest conservatism seeks to do for America. (THE REV.) PAUL J. PFADENHAUER Merrick...
Echo's orbit has changed very little, but no one can say for sure how long it will last. All its gas pressure is probably gone by now. The only reason it keeps its shape is that the forces that tend to shrink or distort it are extremely small. Slater estimates that meteorites nibble away about 1¼ sq. in. of its skin per day. Eventually the sphere may collapse, pushed to a pancake by air drag and pressure of sunlight, or drawn together by the Mylar's "memory" of the way it was folded in the launching...
...after Nikita Khrushchev's first open split with Red China's leaders over basic Communist dogma, the battle was getting hotter-and the relationship colder-than ever. Moscow's Izvestia, scarcely veiling its Red Chinese target, railed against "leftists" and "phrase-mongers" who "assemble and sometimes distort quotations to repeat over and over again that imperialist wars are inevitable," adding that only "fools and dogmatists" could say (as the Chinese have been saying) that Russian advocacy of peaceful coexistence was a sellout to capitalism. Peking's Vice Premier Li Fu-chun promptly retorted that China...
...swaggers like a general, or in the battle scenes where he quivers like a jelly, this thieving, braggart liar, this gorging, guzzling "huge bombard of sack" who lives on his wits and gets by on his charm so bestrides the play that the great danger is he will completely distort it; he so domineers over it on occasion as to send royalty and even history packing...
...public or political policy, but on the needs of the corporation and what the market will bear -the higher the better. To do otherwise, he says, often does more harm than good: "The new corporate morality may result in prices and wages which sabotage the market mechanism and systematically distort the allocation of resources." Shareholders' Democracy? This new corporate morality is the product of the professional manager, the new type of corporate boss, who has taken over from the oldtime owner-entrepreneur. Such men, says W. Lloyd Warner, professor of social research at Michigan State University, are nothing like...