Word: warp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little book and Dr. Lin's stridency may be overlooked with the same polite complacency with which China is often overlooked among the United Nations. But, if the mistakes of her allies anger China as they have angered Dr. Lin-if now or later they warp China out of the democratic line-up-the things that Dr. Lin complains of will be very serious indeed...
...Souk-el-Spaatz the entire air command has become an interlacing of U.S. warp and British woof. For every staff office held by a Briton, an American occupies an opposite number. Tedder calls Spaatz "Tooey"; Spaatz calls Tedder "Arthur." It is Arthur who occasionally in the evening plays U.S. tunes on the piano. Tooey, who is a guitar virtuoso, broods because he has no instrument with him. The French are scouring Algeria for one so Tooey can join...
Though his most implacable enemies admit his genius as a propaganda technician, few people in Germany, even in the Nazi Party, have any personal admiration for warp-minded, clubfooted Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. But, according to reliable information from Germany last week, Adolf Hitler has made his ambitious Propaganda Minister unchallenged Nazi leader on the home front...
Last week other sections of the press gleefully pointed out that the Economist's typesetter could not, or would not, tell a wasp from a warp or a wolf from a woof. This helped Britons clear up one mystery in a confused world...
...Dynamiting is quickest, most tricky. A properly placed charge will warp, rip and twist the steel casing, letting in water and sand. Improperly placed, the charge will waste its strength by blowing up and down the well shaft...