Word: sloping
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...elements, suppression of criticism, double-dealing opportunism, laziness in the development of collective farms, unprincipled relations within the party, tolerance toward the kulaks, rightist deviations and-to keep things in balance-leftist deviations. The fact was, said the Communists with horror, that Ana had taken to living on "a slope of aristocracy...
...western slope of Mount Etna, close by the village of Bronte, lies the Duchy of Bronte-a bit of England on Sicilian soil. Grateful King Ferdinand of Naples and Sicily presented the 17,000-acre estate and its great baroque castle to Horatio, Lord Nelson and made him Duke of Bronte. It was the King's way of thanking Britain's mighty sea hero for saving the Neapolitan monarchy from the French...
...pilot of a twin-engine transport plane arriving from New York radioed that he was lost in a thick haze somewhere near Los Angeles. At 3:54, as the pilot began feeling his way down through the haze, the plane caught one wing tip on the crest of a slope, and plunged into a hillside in suburban Whittier Heights. The crew of three and all 26 passengers aboard were killed. The plane was a war-surplus C46 Curtiss Commando, operated by a nonscheduled carrier-the fourth non-sked C46 to crash in four months...
...Hunter, who speaks no English and is resentful of white men, runs away from the Chinle school and is pursued by a friendly Government teacher and a Ute interpreter. After a protracted, melodramatic chase through colorful Arizona country, one of the men is injured on a steep canyon slope. At this point, the picture drops its real problem in favor of artificial plot: the boy abruptly reconciles himself to white civilization in a finish that is psychologically and sociologically lame. Independently produced on a shoestring ($100,000) by 29-year-old Actor Hall Bartlett (who also appears in the picture...
Fazzini at his more serious was harder to take. The Prophet, which Fazzini himself considers one of his best statues, was a grim, slope-shouldered figure in coarse-grained pearwood, as ungainly as his other work was agile. Fazzini explains it as "architecture in the form of a man-the attempt of man to become more pure, and to rise from the material to the spiritual...