Word: elasticize
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Just as on the mainland, TV makes celebrities. The elastic, expressive face of English Teacher David Lommen, who comes from Minot, N. Dak.., made him famous within a week. Lommen had been told that Polynesian children could not learn to distinguish the th and z sounds of English. He accepted...
One Giant Step. In theory, stretch fabrics have been around since 1947, when the discovery of vertically stretchable textured yarn hit the slopes, making ski pants a stylish as well as a sturdy business. Chemical processes like slack mercerizing (by which the fabric, not the raw fiber, is made resilient...
Insects have a long list of ingenious means for fending off predators. They go in for camouflage coloring and offensive odors; in some cases they even mimic other insects that their enemy has no taste for. But few match the imaginative arsenal of the litt1e (quarter-inch long) Stenodus beetle...
Its critics call it inbred, conservative, Southern-dominated. This reputation stems from such instances as the time (1910) when the A.B.A. president decried the "dangerous" doctrine of interpreting the Constitution as "an elastic instrument." Nearly half a century later, A.B.A. orations on the same theme reportedly drove Chief Justice Warren...
Elastic Uses. Such a presumption of guilt conflicts with modern U.S. legal concepts. Yet when a person is booked for vagrancy, it is, in effect, up to him to prove his innocence, and for the drunks and down-and-outers who suffer the great majority of vagrancy arrests, this can...