Word: jointedness
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He had an understandable horror of his own bamboo-jointed name: Horst Rüdiger Karl August Ernst Georg Cristoph Fabious von Gugel Brandt und Dippolsdorf. True, it showed his patrician lineage, but it would never squeeze into a corner of his surrealist canvases. So he reduced it to plain...
Local tipsters were rudely jointed out of plans for an early-morning cleanup yesterday when wet grounds and a heavy track caused postponement of the annual Hoop Derby, scheduled for a dawn start on Wellesley's templed hills.
His long legs spread far apart, Hartung waited menacingly. The first pitch was down the groove. With a huge stride and a loose-jointed lurch, he swung-and connected. The ball arched up and disappeared over a 30-foot fence, 370 feet away.
On the Spot. If anyone had ignored those realities, it was the Supreme Court. The majority had failed to see the consequences of its decision. Justice Murphy's loose-jointed constructions and sloppy phrasing invited the filing of thousands of portal-pay suits by unions. If these were valid...
Nearly every science nowadays, even fleshy anthropology, is bogged down in figures which mean little until digested mathematically. Sometimes this chore is simple, requiring only an adding machine, or a pencil, paper and persistence. More often, as science takes off into thinner & thinner abstractions, each calculation is a double-jointed...