Word: lilliputian
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...filled up with returning Auvergnats every summer. They told tales of the money they raked in over the zinc-topped bars of Paris, and the Costes boys listened and dreamed. "For us, Paris was the universe," recalls Gilbert, who moved there in 1968. "When we first arrived, we felt Lilliputian. We felt lost." But like others before them, they fell into a café welfare system. The Auvergnats of Paris take care of their own. The boys learned their métier at cafés around town and impressed their elders with their shrewdness and industry. Among the impressed...
...Lilliputian in stature? Or too tight, perhaps, to fork out the $20 required to spend a day communing with the spirits of ancient Khmer Kings? Then maybe the other Angkor...
...living cell bustles with molecular activity. Lilliputian protein motors ferry goods and services. Enzymes curl and unfurl. Even on its calmest days, the DNA double-helix twists, unwinds and wiggles like a loopy spring...
Seeing-eye dogs are great, but why should one animal have a monopoly on helping the blind? Given the existence of hearing-ear cats, seizure-assist pigs and monkey helpers for quadriplegics, it should come as no surprise that miniature horses are being trained to guide the blind. Lilliputian creatures, roughly 2 ft. tall at the shoulder, they come equipped with a good memory, excellent night vision and absurdly cute sneakers to provide traction indoors. But perhaps the greatest advantage is the ponies' 25- to 35-year life span. Says Dan Shaw, 44, of Ellsworth, Maine, who will receive...
...meld general relativity and quantum mechanics. This difficulty arose because space lacks smoothness below subatomic scales. When distances become unimaginably small, space bubbles and churns frenetically, an effect sometimes referred to as quantum foam. Pointlike particles, including the graviton, are likely to be tossed about by quantum foam, like Lilliputian boats to which ripples in the ocean loom as large waves. Strings, by contrast, are miniature ocean liners whose greater size lets them span many waves at once, making them impervious to such disturbances...