Word: overlaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Synge has overlaid his peasants' horseplay with his own warm Irish humor. He has taken the pungent speech in which they let themselves go, has both slyly overdresssed it and poetically beautified it, and given it matchless rhythm. The Playboy is something to hear even more than...
Solomonic Judgment? Whether the uniformed chiefs agreed or not, their diverse blueprints might yet be overlaid to make the plan of a structure which all would have to accept and support. As Senator Lister Hill (a merger advocate) told the Navy in a Solomonic judgment: "You could take that entire overall setup depicted in your chart and lay it over the Army plan without greatly disturbing either one." The Army would get the merger it has fought for; the Air Forces would get its equality; the Navy would get the overall coordination it has preached. Each would have to give...
...meeting place of the Big Three. There, on the castle grounds the Russians had planted a courtyard with red flowers in the shape of a huge red star, set against a background of smooth, carefully mowed lawn. Inside was a dark-paneled main room, furnished with a crimson carpet overlaid with a red and purple Oriental rug, a 12-ft. circular table and 15 chairs, desks for secretaries and stenographers. From the room, hallways led to private suites. Off the main room was also the main dining room, where Baptist Harry Truman, who prefers bourbon, will have to drink many...
...assumption of the biological homogeneity of any race is a fiction. Every race contains many family strain? which are biologically distinct. . . . The physiological and psychological behavior of the individual depends only in part upon his hereditary characteristics. These differ widely within every population and are strongly overlaid by outer, cultural influences which modify the hereditary traits. . . . Personality cannot be assumed to be determined by the so-called racial groups ... but is a matter that must be determined individually...
...suddenly to eight feet of ice. "We struck a very bad season," said Sergeant Larsen, whose idea of a good season would frighten most men to death. The men blasted huge ice floes and icebergs threatening the uniquely tough hull of the St. Roch, which was copper sheathed and overlaid with ice-resisting Australian ironbark. The St. Roch stayed upright and whole when ice crashing by lifted her straight up out of the water...