Word: sag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent engineering report says the bridge is "functioning with marginal, decayed components" and that "rehabilitation must be undertaken." Even an untutored eye can see the sag of the long wooden trusses that hold the roadway high above the water. Graton's eye is hardly untutored, though; he is the foremost expert in the world on the construction and restoration of covered bridges. With his son Arnold, he has built or repaired some three dozen of them...
...Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary . . . Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion. On their shoulders and backs they carry heavy steel tripods, machine-gun barrels, leaden boxes of ammunition. Their feet seem to sink into the ground from the overload they are bearing. They don't slouch. It is the terrible deliberation of each step that spells out their appalling tiredness. Their faces are black and unshaven. They are young men, but the grime and whiskers and exhaustion make them look middle-aged . . . All afternoon men keep coming round the hill...
...building located a stone's throw away from the Congress. Its walls bear the eerie reminder of the dirty war: thousands of black and white snap-shots, each with a name and a date, hang in solemn rows behind protective glass; and the shelves of an overflowing glass case sag under the weight of homemade trinkets sent to the mothers as gifts of moral support from all over the world. Here the mothers meet and work. Here they write the speeches that cap off their weekly protests. Here they plan and write their monthly newspaper--a professional-looking montage...
...three times larger than Iraq's, and its devoutly Islamic clerical leadership seems as willing as ever to absorb massive losses to destroy Saddam. If the stalemate that Iraq has achieved so far by its superiority in firepower begins to fade, both military and civilian morale are likely to sag. Observers believe that desertions within the Iraqi ranks are already on the rise. Saddam is reported to have recently decorated a father who shot his own son for refusing to fight...
...portraiture that mocks the earthly vanity his fashion shots glorify. The fixtures of that style are familiar: unsmiling figures shot in sharp focus against a plain white background. (Avedon started his career taking identity-card shots for the Merchant Marine.) The results can be pitiless. With every wrinkle and sag set out in high relief, even the mightiest plutocrat seems just one more dwindling mortal...