Word: kink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five years ago Grimes got interested in a kink in London's medieval wall near St. Giles Cripplegate Church in the downtown "City" of London. It angled suggestively, as if it were enclosing something about 200 yards square. Grimes selected the site of some blitzed office buildings, dug a trench and found the face of a solid wall made of Kentish ragstone, the Romans' favorite building material. Combined with the kink in the medieval wall, it outlined roughly a square Roman fort...
...pattern by which our people have in all things sought to demonstrate how thoroughly American they are. In any case, it is unfortunate both for us and for America. Such a suspicious contempt for the intellectual life is far from being a Catholic phenomenon. It is a kink in the American character generally. It is the more unbecoming in Catholics, however, because it is so utterly out of harmony with any authentic
...prefabricated nylon tube to replace a damaged femoral artery. Within a month after the operation at the Medical College of Alabama, the patient had good circulation in his foot. Unlike hand-fashioned fabric arteries, the new model (produced by Decatur, Ala.'s Chemstrand Corp.) does not fray or kink, thus does not cause "wrinkle thrombosis...
Then came the meteorological kink that turned humdrum Carol into a raging hazard by leading her toward shore. It was a deep wave in the planetary wind, part of a disturbance that had been detected while still over the Pacific more than a week before. By 3 a.m. Tuesday morning, the wind was headed toward the north, carrying Carol at 35 to 40 m.p.h. toward Long Island. Warnings went out at once, but most people along the endangered coast had gone to bed unworried, confident that Carol would pass them by. Instead, she churned destructively across southeastern New England, destroying...
Psychologists have had a lot to say about this Dodgsonian kink. What the Diaries make clear is that immature girls were, to Dodgson, the nearest thing on earth to angelic "spirits of peace." It is easy to imagine his indignation when, on taking a great fancy to little Alice Liddell and her sisters (daughters of the dean of his own college, Christ Church), he was accused by gossips of chasing "the governess. Miss Prickett...