Word: misshapen
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...casting Canada Lee in the debasing role of Caliban. Miss Webster has invited the criticism of all who profess an interest in the race question. The choice of a Negro for the role of the misshapen monster, half-human and servile, suggests sinister implications. Lee, however, said during a backstage interview that he has attempted to play down all social connotations in his part, and that he feels genuinely honored to follow in the footsteps of Sir Herbert Tree and other English actors who have played Caliban...
Again Russian hamlets set afire by alien hands glowed in the bluish dusk, and misshapen figures dangled from the gallows. Again the thunder of Red artillery pursued the fleeing men through day & night, and white-painted Stormoviks hopped over the gaunt trees to bomb and strafe...
...oily waters of Pearl Harbor still lap the misshapen, rusted hulks of three great warships. They are all that remains of the heart-sickening wreckage of Dec. 7, 1941, when the U.S. suffered the worst naval defeat in its history. Sixteen other vessels hit that day have been scrapped, sent to the mainland for repair, or returned to the fleet...
This is not due so much to the financial burden as to the misshapen organization of the summer term itself. The administration has either conservatively neglected or foolishly discarded the possibility of dividing the year into three equal terms, and decided to hobble on two regular semesters from September to June, plus a jammed-up twelve week summer session, with no reading period and no time for tutorial work. They have not given us the time for tutorial in the summer--that is the crux of the matter. Instead, they have shaped something like a round wheel with a slice...
...studio of Draftsman Ralph E. Layman, police discovered a printing press, dies, a font of the eccentric, misshapen type used to print the code words on mutuel tickets. With this equipment, in an automobile parked near a race track, Layman could be his own totalisator machine, could punch out winning tickets after the race was over...