Word: loom
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...black, red, and grey. Moist surfaces-such as sweat patches on a horse or the wet concrete of a swimming pool at an irrigation settlement-are a weird glowing purplish color. The sun is entirely obscured, or shows like a wan full moon. Dead trees, a tragic number, loom through the hot murk in a variety of fantastic shapes as though they died in agony. . . . Where the dust clears a little, a few dead sheep may be seen. But not many; the drifting sand has buried an uncounted number where they fell. . . ." Results...
...first 30,000,000 children's garments which will be made under the new plan, enforcement is probably tougher in the textile industry than in any other field.* A complex business, its operators can weave in & out of regulations as deftly as a shuttle on a loom...
...camera focused on the bow. The barge is under fire. The men in it, crouched low, show a physical, animal restlessness more revealing-and far more complex-than any manifestation of pure fear. Beyond the bow of the barge, wavering with the motion of the water, and terrifyingly close, loom the upper floors of bleak Norman seaside houses. The barge opens its mouth. Not in a neat, eager, clattering rush as people have sometimes imagined, but wretchedly, one by one, crabwise the crouching men disembark, hip-deep, and begin to wade ashore. Their officer, at the blunt bow, stands erect...
...perfect in its infinite human implications that, when Mann finished, he had written the story of a story of a story of a story. Step by step, Joseph the Provider is hard going. But from time to time, on the book's Saharan horizons, loom rich oases of pure storytelling-some as long as a novel...
...Interglossa: U President de United States syn duco Commissari-pe, Mr. Churchill, ge electio e regi Crati de United Kingdom, pre acte unio. In English: "The President of the United States and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill representing H.M. Government in the United Kingdom, being met together. . . ." *A Loom example of German word order: "These by Th. Nöldeke, History of the Koran, Göttingen, 1860, for the first time put forward basic views on the language of the Koran are in K. Voller's Spoken and Written Language in Ancient Arabia, Strasbourg, 1906, by the wrong...