Word: droop
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...rocks. Down in the engine room crewmen wear plastic ear muffs to muffle noise from the cutter's ancient 2,000-h.p. diesels. As the ice field gives way, the Mac slips back and forth in a bow-to-stern rocking motion, soothing enough to make your eyelids droop...
...mile-high orbit designed to cover the world's oceans from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Its parabolic radar antenna scanned the seas for ship movement, and its radio transmitters relayed the collected information to Soviet ground stations. But in mid-December, Cosmos 954 began to droop in its orbit, slipping closer to earth with each revolution. The Soviets sent the satellite a radio command that should have caused it to separate into three sections, with the nuclear core soaring into an orbit up to 800 miles high, where it could circle for centuries-and yet still remain...
...book) was a second-generation Californian, a freelance journalist who "wanted to be the Girl of the Sixties brand-new, streamlined, groovy daring upfront, telling it like it is. I also wanted to stop wearing a bra, but Jane and I worried that it would cause our breasts to droop...
...perennial bridesmaids of American fiction. Part of the problem is that the styles Elkin employs are beginning to show their age. His prose is creased by the crow's-feet of '50s black humor, it shows the slight stoop of Jewish realism and the weird droop of the surreal as well. There is no denying, though, that when Elkin puts them together-as he did in Boswell, A Bad Man, The Dick Gibson Show and now The Franchiser-the results are fresh...
...cooler air of the bathroom women are divided into two camps: those that look like Bette Midler and those that are thin. The former sport needle-thin eyebrows, wavy permanents, and blood-dark lipstick that shines like grease within the neatly-pencilled borders of their mouths. The latter droop against walls and sinks and toilet stall doors, saying nothing; they seem to think that being thin is enough. They're embarassed to be here, as if admitting to human functions belies their lifeless mannequin status...