Word: sturdier
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...camp she lives in is typical of those housing migrants in the more prosperous cities across China. In a two-story building made of concrete slabs and thin aluminum sheets that seem no sturdier than cardboard, there is no heat, no water, and the workers, around 400 in all, sometimes live four to a room. It is freezing in the winter, stifling in the summer. Most of the workers are men. They cook their evening meals on small electric water heaters and, during summer and fall, after work they sit outside and smoke or play cards and drink beer...
...doubts," says caretaker Soraida Salwala, founder of the hospital. "I had heard of prosthetics for birds and dogs, but nothing had ever been made for an elephant." So well has Motala adjusted to her new foot, however, that doctors are already designing a lighter, sturdier replacement for her made of fiberglass and silicone...
...Miller pictures Leonidas as a hero of Hestonian features (though Butler looks like a sturdier Soupy Sales). He gives a lot of cross-species personality to his villains. He draws the Ephors as pigmen with pigment. And Ephialtes is Miller's Gollum: misshapen in body and mind, eager to please, susceptible to bribes. His battles are grandly realized, with dark splashes of Utrillo. The whole thing is the smartest rendering of a klassics komic book, which the movie basically dupes, down to the last frame. It's a virtual Xerxes Xerox...
...Jong Il’s regime is sturdier than many U.S. politicians are willing to admit, a top North Korea expert said at an Institute of Politics forum yesterday that painted a sobering picture of American security in light of the Oct. 9 nuclear test. “We must abandon our idea that, given enough time, the current regime will collapse,” said panelist Stephen W. Linton, who has traveled to North Korea over 50 times as a humanitarian aid worker and now heads the Eugene Bell Foundation, which provides medical aid to North Koreans...
...nature, willing to give up my principles on a moment’s notice, yet unable to individuate myself from the consumerist herd? Yes and Yes. But I already knew I was like that. Anyway, this time around, ankle boots are much more tolerable, and more like a significantly sturdier high-heel. They are generally being shown with skirts as opposed to pants. If they are shown with pants, the pants must be skinny and tuck into the boots themselves. Kate Moss is excellent at wearing ankle boots tucked into pants. I have always admitted she is a very talented...