Word: slantingly
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...while, all the work will have a military slant: How should vehicles be redesigned? Can camouflage be improved? What is the best way to destroy the ice under an advancing enemy? But some day, SIPRE's scientists hope to turn to more peaceful problems, for their work has practical value wherever man tries to live with snow, ice and frozen ground...
...high regard in Communist literary circles. For the Right Cause, Grossman's unfinished tome on the battle of Stalingrad, had been certified as dialectically sound by Moscow's literati. But after it appeared, Kommunist angrily reversed the verdict: For the Right Cause was "permeated" with the wrong slant. Pythagorist Grossman, warned Pravda a few days later, had better recant...
...reveals a brilliant extrovert, as compared to Dean Acheson, the brilliant introvert. Secretary Dulles' high, straight-lined, strikingly original capital letters indicate self-assurance and the ability to cope with big problems . . . The fluent illegibility of his other letters with their rounded formation and slightly forward slant shows a swift, uninhibited mentality combined with amiability...
...long arm of Uncle Sosso still throws enough of a scare into Budu to keep him changing residences frequently. At present he is living on the outskirts of Paris, under an assumed name. Seven years of Western freedom have given him a more critical slant on the Stalinist regime, and he is busy on a gloves-off treatment of Uncle Sosso, to be called Stalin Told...
Child's Play. The little-girl dancers, their childish bodies sheathed in golden cloth, moved slowly about the stage, hips back, knees bent and slightly parted, darting their slant eyes, their arms and fingers flowing through a cascade of graceful and sophisticated gestures, all with a slight smile of incredible self-possession. The oldest was 13. The male dancers were much older. In one all-male number, 30 men sat in a circle on the floor, shaking their shoulders in unison, and began a syncopated whisper that worked up into something like a football cheer, while a clown leapt...