Word: elasticize
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Any CRR referendum today is predestined to failure because most students make simple assumptions about student discipline which are antithetical to the current structure of the CRR. Students feel that the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities is too "elastic" and therefore unjust; and while most have never seen, much less...
> Each year almost 100,000 U.S. hospital patients die of pulmonary embolisms-blood clots that generally form in the leg veins and travel to points where they block arteries leading to the lungs. Many of these deaths probably could be prevented. The patients may be immobilized because of minor surgery...
In seeking to convey this sense, Wills succeeds brilliantly. Wills's failing is a kind endemic to the journalist who think well and thinks a lot. Wills's style, like Norman Mailer's is that of the elastic bag. He can go from profound talk about the Vatican doctrine on...
Its uses have changed-the dubious honor of driving the first car in Central Park went to one Winston Buzby in 1898, and the present infestation of buildings and ugly monuments was no part of Olmsted's plan. Today, the character of Central Park is stretched to its elastic...
Prague is beginning to glitter again after a massive campaign to restore and regild its splendid baroque churches and monuments. Its shop windows are filled with consumer goods imported from the capitalist West as well as from the Communist East. No fewer than 7,000,000 tourists from East Germany...