Word: pliantly
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...rooms," Gallagher writes. "When I was a kid, I thought he had made the world." But as her parents grow more feeble, the house begins to rot away; eventually it would take a team wearing surgical masks and gloves to clean it out. Her sweet mother is too pliant to complain, her father too stubborn and sick to think straight. Yet to Gallagher, he is still the fearless man who arrived in steerage, took jobs selling bananas (eating nothing but), delivering wet laundry in tenements before running his own garage. His only child finds that she can't tell...
...belligerent wad of jelly. The blobs that beguile him are any "isomorphic polysurfaces," meaning shapes that are, well, blobs. Architecture is a profession in which the cube and sphere are still the literal building blocks. What Lynn prefers reminds you of amoebas and bundled foam. In the most pliant forms of nature, in very irregular geometry, he sees the future...
Presiding over inter-Korean peace has multiple advantages for the Chinese: South Korea has become a major investor in China's newly capitalist economy, and Beijing is hoping that delivering a more pliant Pyongyang to the negotiating table - as China appears to have done - will cement its ties with Seoul. Besides transferring responsibility for the North Korean basket-case economy to Seoul, it also raises China's prestige as a responsible and powerful regional problem-solver. Beijing wouldn't be at all sad to see the departure of all those U.S. troops from its doorstep, and it would look...
Even under the June sunshine, Bill Clinton found Moscow a little chilly for his liking. The Yeltsin years got the U.S. president accustomed to dealing with a Russian leader as pliant as a puppy so long as his begging bowl was filled, but Sunday's summit with just-anointed President Vladimir Putin saw Mr. Clinton facing a Russian leader less prone to accommodating Western concerns. And on the key issue of missile defense, President Putin holds the cards that can make life a little uncomfortable for the U.S. leader. "President Clinton needs a deal on missile defense far more than...
Fast-forward to the present. Lloyd's has indeed been rocked by ruinous asbestos claims, and managed to survive only with the help of a pliant Parliament. But a stone-broke Evans has lost her home. Thousands of Names have been wiped out financially. Some committed suicide. Even such notables as brokerage founders Charles Schwab and Dan Lufkin have been exposed to the loss of millions in what has been called the biggest and baldest swindle in history, perpetrated behind the clubby doors of the world's most respected insurance organization...