Word: rectangularity
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...Since the sunny Monday fell before a Tuesday holiday celebrating the first day of spring, the Hibiya train was less crowded than usual; the masked man easily found a seat and, according to a witness quoted anonymously in the Tokyo papers, almost immediately began fiddling with a foot-long rectangular object wrapped in newspapers. At the next stop he set the package on the floor and strode briskly from the train. By then, says a witness, a moist spot had appeared on the wrapping...
...Bartholomew's congregation--usually between 150 to 180 people, "depending on the weather"--reflects the diversity of Cambridge's Area Four, a rectangular-shaped neighborhood nestled between Central and Kendall Squares...
...reaches into the milk crate and heaves out a rectangular object made of yellow metal. Mom hauls out another one. She and Dad begin lining them up on the counter, like King and Queen Midas unloading a carton of Twinkies...
...blue, crystallize the value of Cultures and Contexts. They are presented on white walls without the helpful explanations, without accompanying cultural artifacts, yet carry themselves with the solitary dignity of true masterpieces. There is a rising debate in American museums about the validity of hanging art on flat rectangular white walls. Yet these walls, after the chaos of the rest of the exhibit, establish a connection between art and viewer which is difficult to dispute...
...clock in and out -- an unheard- of regimen on Capitol Hill. "He wanted an honest day's work out of us," said a longtime aide. Another OMB official admitted last week that Panetta's criticism can be so withering that she sometimes takes "the long way around" the rectangular corridor of the Old Executive Office Building rather than risk running into him outside his nearby office. Asked last week whether little things or big things seemed to set Panetta off, an associate OMB director, quickly replied...