Word: misshapen
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...armistice of 1949 left Israel a misshapen territory about the size of New Jersey. It was hemmed around by the hate of 900,000 Palestinian refugees and the vengeful memories of five defeated Arab nations. Economically the infant country was dependent on world Jewry for $100 million a year in aid. The Arab conviction was that...
...Drago (35, 24, 33), one of the few Italian actresses to whom it has occurred that sex might not be enough, tries sophistication too. She has red hair and green eyes, stands 5 ft. 7 in. and is 28 years old. Because her beauty was marred by a mildly misshapen nose. Eleonora won no beauty contests, had to come up the hard way. She won the La Victoire Prize, the French equivalent of Hollywood's Oscar, in 1954, and about the same time had her nose fixed up by Paris surgeons. "I would give up everything for my career...
...become normal again, while she learns to value their simple, unheroic humanity. Under Stephania's prodding, little Thura begins to move her paralyzed fingers, while Fröken Nilsson, outraged at being called an "old heap of fat" by Stephania, goes on a rigorous diet. Only Stephania, misshapen and disappointed, must go back alone into the world, to try to win a place for herself...
Unbelievable, but through a different cause, is the monster, Cathy Ames. There are, Mr. Steinbeck believes, moral monsters just as there are physically misshapen ones, and Cathy is one of these. She starts, as a young girl, by burning down her home (with her mother and father in it), and ends up owning a whorehouse dedicated to the more violent perversions, abandoning a husband and a brace of twins along the way. Never having met so fiercely evil a person, the reader will have to rely on the author's word, and that at times is insufficient...
...think that he has renounced all the normal benefits and joys of life; in others, he feels so proud of his role as defender-of-the-faith that he scorns the city as a place of "streets in the rain . . . plaster statues . . . damp barracks, tuneless bells, tired and misshapen faces, endless afternoons, dirty dusty ceilings...