Word: squarish
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...Victoria has a stress fracture of the cuboid-the squarish bone on the outside of the hindfoot. These fractures are not common but I've seen a few in dancers and gymnasts. Stress fractures are tiny cracks in bone that seem to occur simply because the substance of the bone itself can't take the stress that's being applied-pretty much the way a paper clip you keep bending back and forth will weaken and turn whitish at the bend before it breaks in two. That white spot is a stress fracture of the metal. Bend...
Ortho-McNeil's Ortho Evra is a squarish adhesive patch that sticks onto the body and lasts a week. Organon's NuvaRing is a clear plastic hoop inserted like a tampon and effective for three weeks. The package includes a clock to remind the user when to remove the ring. "These products are designed for women who don't want to think about contraception on a daily basis," says New York University Medical Center's Dr. Michael Silverstein...
...your hopeful eyes, the large box under the tree at Christmas promised hidden delights. Indeed, as you eagerly tore open wrapping paper, you revealed a gray compact box, two squarish, unwieldy controllers, a zapper gun, and the ultimate in cartridges: "Super Mario Bros." with "Duck Hunt." 8-bit utopia was yours! That first night, you tried desperately to shoot all of those damn ducks, and rescue Princess Toadstool from the clutches of the evil Bowser. In the soft glow of the T.V. screen, your face was radiant and peaceful...
...obscurities in the text, but coming as messages across a cultural gap of nearly half a millennium, they can be maddeningly difficult to read. Portrait of a Married Couple, 1523-24, looks like an ordinary marriage portrait, painted with exquisite fluency and respect: an upper-class man with a squarish, brown-bearded face (he looks oddly like the late Gianni Versace) sitting at a table with an equally patrician woman, Venetian evidently, from the white lapdog she is holding. Her right hand rests devotedly on her husband's upper arm. Marital concord...
Recurring images in Olmec art--dragons, birds, dwarfs, hunchbacks and, most important, the "were-jaguar" (part human, part jaguar)--indicate a belief in the supernatural and in shamanism. Olmec-style human figures typically have squarish facial features with full lips, a flat nose, pronounced jowls and slanting eyes reminiscent (at least to early travelers in the region) of African or Chinese peoples. Archaeologists have found household objects as well, but they tend to be broken. As a result, laments Joralemon, "we know relatively little about the common Olmec...