Word: peakedness
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As a pale, peaked schoolgirl in the Serbian market town of Bagrdan, Ljubinka Milosavljevic, according to one of her teachers, "never particularly distinguished herself in anything." But the necessities of war and the peculiar demands of Communist ideology brought out unsuspected talents in this rural railroad switchman's daughter...
The match was so one-sided that the stadium rocked to the shrill and scornful sound of the "Moscow Whistle," a nerveracking Eastern echo of The Bronx cheer. English sportswriters found it all terribly embarrassing. "The Russians," said Desmond Hackett of the Daily Express, "are not easily amused. But before...
In his old age, Peale retired to a big farm, which he soon made a model of scientific agriculture. He started a small cotton mill, successfully manufactured porcelain teeth for his cronies, and urged a device which he had built for taking enemas on anyone who seemed peaked. At 86...
Breadbasket Fielder. Life without a laugh was always unthinkable to Rabbit Maranville. The chunky little (5 ft. 4 in., 150 Ibs.) infielder tried plenty of gags, on and off the baseball field, from the very first day he played and made his first "breadbasket" catch of a fly ball. The...
¶ For the Washington Irving elementary school in Waverly, Iowa, Architects Lawrence Perkins and Philip Will went on the theory that children are happiest in their own little community. They equipped each classroom with its own washroom, scaled its windows and ceilings to child-size. Other kinds of rooms, however...