Word: embeddedness
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Khrushchev's proposal to make West Berlin a "free city," embedded in East Germany and cut off from the West, has had another result: the Insulaner have stopped grumbling about their lot and decided that the status quo is not so bad after all. The currently favorite illustration of...
Slicing the Tree. The pathologists removed the whole breathing apparatus ("tracheobronchial tree") from the bodies of 402 men who died in Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange and in eleven New York hospitals (mainly in nonindustrial towns to reduce bias that might result from air pollution). It turned out that...
Though relatively few earthlings are aware of it, they are embedded in a huge, disk-shaped spiral galaxy. Earth's astronomers have a hard time seeing much else; every star visible in the sky is part of it.* They have an even harder time seeing into its heart (located...
¶ Fred Berger, 35, works in an advertising studio, paints snarling heads that seem embedded in rock. His purpose: "To show man as a creature who is at once magnificent and terrifying."
According to Dr. Lougee's theory, the northern shore of this sea was a towering ice cliff. Great icebergs broke away and drifted toward the outlet, a wide estuary that led to the Gulf of Mexico. When they melted, their embedded stones dropped to the bottom, creating the many...