Word: warping
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Through the College Charters, Statutes, and rulings, runs also that fragile thread of personalities and human relationships which can keep the warp of the Corporation interwoven harmoniously with the woof of the Faculty. When this thread is snapped, as it has been occasionally, the result is revolt and hostility...
...Magnesium skis that will not warp, dry out or lose their camber...
...Louise's father had not learned about Western music in Paris, his daughter's music might have been entirely in the native singsong style. But when she was six, he decided she should learn to play the piano, bought her a metal-bodied, warp-proof (but tinny-toned) instrument. By the time she was twelve she had learned everything the sisters in a local Roman Catholic missionary school could teach her. After four more years of private lessons, she went to the Paris Conservatory. She soon found that her talents lay in the light-fingered piano music...
Before Health-Hawker Hauser has half a million Americans ripping out their plumbing to install sitz tubs, or warp themselves like pretzels to sit side-straddle in a bathtub, let me point out that physiotherapists have long advocated sitz baths. And there's nothing unorthodox about soaking your fanny and your feet at the same time...
...generation is the complete absence of any kind of discipline-mental or physical-that should have been impressed upon us by your generation. In the "psychological" home you let us run around un-channeled. Respect and taste were completely neglected in the half-baked theory that any regimentation would warp our sensitive personalities ... It has resulted in a general feeling in my generation that anyone behaving decently, learnedly, or intelligently is either a comic figure or most unnatural...