Word: unpleasanter
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Intent on refuting potential criticism of Olde English snobbery, the editors seem to have gone out of their way to find Americanisms. "Hoity-toity," "WATS line," "umpteen," "pinhead," and the verb to "off" (kill) are all defined; the editors do, however, miss a couple, such as "dive," as in a...
The bat is one of a large genus of unpleasant plastic animals, many of whom appear to have spaceships somewhere in their genetic past. Hornetroid, for instance, the "fearsome myriapod from the far off galaxy of Thoraxid," comes equipped with folding landing gear. Then there's Terraphant, "the terrifying mammoth...
In a noisy inferno at Westinghouse's lamp factory in Bloomfield, N.J., a Unimate 2015G robot performs a process called "swaging." This is somewhat like making spaghetti, but it is done with 21-in. rods of yellow tungsten, destined to become light-bulb filaments. The robot lifts them off...
Everyone except for six-year olds who've seen "Annie" knows that the thirties weren't all that happy. George Haimsohn and Robin Miller, who wrote the book and lyrics of Dames at Sea, surely do--but did they know what they were doing when they inserted a particularly offensive...
Carter knew that. Reagan knew it too. So did the powers that be in Iran. Last week, largely because the American election was at hand, the bizarre interplay between U.S. domestic politics and the pandemonium that passes for government in Iran became more feverish, preoccupying and unpredictable than ever. While...