Word: perpendicularity
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...seagull drinks water off the roof of a factory. The narrow streets flash by perpendicular to the tracks. Down through a narrow gorge bordered on both sides by elevated highways, and then a flat plain crowded by a colony of monstrous housing projects, each twenty-story building in the shadow of its neighbor...
...portrait Sargent did of her sits in the Gothic room on the third floor. Stained glass windows flank her, and a carved chest topped by a huge Bible lies before her like an altar. And, with an amazing amount of stupidity, she placed the only Vermeer in New England perpendicular to a window. The light shines on it at the only angle that could make it completely unreadable...
...Wall Street adages is that the stock market can stand almost anything except uncertainty. As investors try to evaluate what the energy crisis is likely to do to the economy, they can now see nothing but uncertainty-and sure enough, the market cannot stand it. A nearly perpendicular drop in prices has sheared a staggering $100 billion off the value of exchange-listed shares in the past six weeks and plunged Wall Street into its blackest gloom in two decades. In brokerage offices, the talk is all of margin calls, possible failure of some big investment houses and actual...
...only when Skylab moved back within range of NASA'S big dish antenna in California's Mojave Desert that Mission Control learned the results. "We got the wing out and locked," reported Conrad. With a tug from the astronauts, the solar wing had swung out perpendicular to the ship and its accordion-like silicon panels were unfolding. However, hydraulic fluid in the panels' spring mechanism had stiffened in the extreme cold, and the panels only partially came out. Yet by week's end the warming rays had thawed the fluid. The panels extended fully...
...studies of the two basic types of seismic waves that are given off by all earthquakes: 1) P (or pressure) waves, which alternately compress and expand the earth in the direction of their travel; and 2) S (or shear) waves, which cause motion of the earth in a direction perpendicular to their path. Because a quake's P waves travel through the earth slightly faster than its S waves, they arrive at seismic listening posts ahead of the S waves. While investigating the small tremors that often occur in the Garm region south of the Central Asian city...