Word: misshapen
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...standard Moscow taxicab sifts through traffic along the city's Boulevard Ring road on a mild, hazy winter's afternoon. The windows are coated with a viscous film of mud and grit, residue of city snow turned to slush. Wipers, old and misshapen, scrape slowly across the windshield, clearing just enough space for the driver to spot a stout old man waving his hand from the curb. He pulls over. A few words are spoken, an agreement reached. The man and his wife, both wearing dingy overcoats, fur hats and rubber boots, clamber...
Hellbent to harvest a crop they did not plant, the loggers leave behind a battlefield strewn with war's spoils: misshapen logs and stumps, distorted and twisted beyond belief--the grotesque deformities of wooden corpses...
...Angel swung by a Tucson pottery shop to pick up some firebricks for a backyard kiln. Then he purchased some glass ovenware at a nearby hardware store. A few days later, he materialized in a graduate student's doorway, brandishing a couple of Pyrex custard dishes melted to a misshapen blob. "We can make telescope mirrors out of this!" Angel exclaimed. Thus began a monumental and quixotic effort to reinvent the central light-gathering surface of the telescope, from its initial design to its final polishing...
...from those who came to know of its side effects. Marketed as a tranquilizer, thalidomide turned out to be one of the most potent causes of birth defects ever found. Babies born to women who took it during early pregnancy were born with terrible deformities, including missing or seriously misshapen limbs...
...which are actually no different from ordinary silicone implants except for an added layer of polyurethane foam, were considered by many surgeons to be the best on the market. The older, smooth-shelled variety tended to cause surrounding tissue to tighten into a fibrous mass, sometimes leaving the breast misshapen and hard to the touch. But the polyurethane foam coating of the Surgitek products prevented this from happening by substantially increasing the surface area of the implant. When the neighboring tissue contracts, it does not become too compact. Surgeons who have used the models -- which came into widespread use only...