Word: misshapen
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...Central Catholic High School, Bauer won his Cs in baseball and basketball-plus a permanently misshapen nose (the result of a collision with an opponent's elbow under the basket). After graduation, Hank worked for a while repairing furnaces in a beer-bottling plant. In 1941 his older brother Herman, a White Sox farm hand, wangled him a pro tryout. Hank landed with Oshkosh in the Class D Wisconsin State League. But he hardly burned up the bushes. Alternating between infield and outfield, he batted a measly .262. The manager thought he might be a pitcher. Earned-run average...
...more limbs. Except in the rare instance of a mother's taking a harmful drug such as thalidomide during pregnancy, the causes of these congenital deformities are seldom known. But the effects are only too evident: in some cases, arms and legs end in misshapen stumps; in others, vital bones are missing from legs and arms, leaving the limbs partially disabled...
...achondroplasia, a form made familiar by Velásquez's paintings of dwarfs as court jesters, with short arms and legs, a large head and a "scooped-out" nose. But Dr. McKusick's team found significant differences. These Amish dwarfs do not have big heads or misshapen noses. Aside from their short arms and legs (from a defect in their cartilage), their only other physical abnormality is their hair. It is light-colored, even in a dark-haired family. It is sparse and very fine (i.e., small diameter). It is brittle and never grows long enough...
...stage with an oppressive, gray two-level set, and Richard (Douglas Watson), with a big cross hung about his hypocritical neck, sitting on the floor until he begins to crawl like an animal. Only gradually are we aware of his ugly visage, hunched back, deformed right hand, and a misshapen leg that necessitates the strapping on of an artificial foot...
...Dubuffet for 20 years. His art is marked by eccentricity and a sparkling imagination. With wash and wallpaper he wraps strange figures in startling ambiguity: one picture suggests both the Crucifixion and a scarecrow. In one room eight of his skinny wooden totems stand around and stare from odd, misshapen faces. Through June...