Word: loomfuls
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...Turkey. The 1948 Czechoslovak Putsch forced Western Europe into NATO; the invasion of Korea sparked Western rearmament. By 1956, the Kremlin may reckon, the Communist world is apt to find itself confronted by an armed and aroused U.S., supported by a coalition in which German and Japanese arms loom large. Here again, fact bolsters guess: now is perhaps the last chance to halt the rearmament of Western Germany...
...that would shatter the spines of pack mules, and the closely clustered thatched mud huts look like shaggy beehives. Then you come to the edge of the escarpment, and the Rift Valley lies below you like a giant frying pan. Over to the right, the Aberdare range begins to loom, blue and smoky, and that's where the Mau Mau gangs lurk, and strike from. There are no east-west roads across the Aberdares. You have to go round them. And that's where the sprawling white farms are scattered, round the Aberdares and between the Aberdare range...
Schwartz felt that the disappearance of the Stalin image will cause the Mao image to loom larger in Asia, making it impossible for Malenkov to hold the same power and prestige that Stalin held...
...gracious, generous "woman of impulse ... of strong feeling" whose husband died of a hereditary brain tumor? This mystery is slickly served up with all the full flavorings of romance, tragedy, revenge, intrigue and suspense. Bells clang in the distance, the surf beats on the misty Cornish coast, shadows loom in moss-covered castles. Most of the characters are moody, tormented people who indulge in such eccentricities as ocean dips in the dead of night, and make such remarks as "I came to be troubled by strange and formless fears." Like Daphne (Rebecca} du Maurier's current novel...
...vanished from the piano repertory. Instead, performers who believed that the old master had no notion of the keyboard's capabilities served up a hybrid fare under the names of Bach-Liszt, Bach-Tausig, or Bach-Bülow. "They put Bach, Mozart, Handel back on the loom," Landowska buzzed in her book Music of the Past. "And after calumniating the greatest masterpieces, they dare couple their obscure names with those of our supreme masters . . . What would sculptors say if a mason undertook to cut away some marble from the Venus de Milo to give her a wasp waist...