Word: tangental
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Egypt's Premier, Nahas Pasha, has one good eye and one that veers off at a tangent. Perhaps the second eye has been roving over the restless Middle East; perhaps it winked at the Fighting French Commander-in-Chief for Syria and Lebanon, General Georges Catroux, and certain political leaders of these onetime French mandates. In Cairo last week they were closeted with Nahas, hatching plans that, after World War II, the Middle East shall be un-mandated...
...Americans also learned that the winters aren't so cold and the defenses aren't so hot. Even though Iceland is tangent to the Arctic Circle, its air is warmed by the Gulf Stream, its houses by water piped from its many hot springs. The best natural element of defense is Lake Thingvalla, which, because it is fed by these hot springs, never freezes, and is therefore ideal for flying patrol boats. Otherwise the advantages of the natural defenses are offset by the scarcity of roads and materiel-scarcities which the Yanks knew their Army would...
...movies, took to singing together in nightclubs in gold-braided black charro (cowboy) costumes. They have since broadcast for NBC, played at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, are now in Argentina. To delicate touching of the guitar and impeccable rhythm they add three fine voices in almost tangent harmony. When they are sweet they are very, very sweet, as in the sad, melodic Hace Un Ano (A Year Ago), Las Mananitas (Mornings), Adids Mariquita Linda (Goodby, Beautiful Mariquita). Their liveliest number is a ranch song, El Toro, full of shouting, whistling, guitar-beating and mooing. They are Decca...
...aggressive attack executed in a tone which by itself is something of a phenomenon. These two elements, combined with musical ideas that no other trombonist over thought of, make his solos actually rise above everything else that happens to be playing. I could go off on a wonderfully inarticulate tangent trying to describe the way Jack plays, so all I'll say is that when you hear it, you'll know that Jack's the boy, because without him his band wouldn't be the same, since it would be lacking in the one driving spirit which gives any band...
...justify it to the world and to himself. Thanks to the planter's own angry guilt over wenching, the Southern white woman became the object of "downright gyneolatry." In Georgia in the 1830's this toast was proposed: "Woman!!! The centre and circumference, diameter and periphery, sine tangent and secant of all our affections!" Meanwhile an exacerbated sense of honor was turned in fury against all forms of criticism. Naturally many a newspaper editor was shot. Says Cash: "The South was en route to the savage ideal: to that ideal whereunder dissent and variety are completely suppressed...