Word: warping
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...grew older, the Dottoressa's stout figure, in its academic robes, became a familiar sight in lecture halls all over the world. Students crowded to hear her speak at the University of Rome. Mussolini made her an honorary Fascist, but she objected to the way Fascists tried to "warp youth in their own brutal pattern." In 1933, her schools were closed...
...world of J. P. Marquand (So Little Time; H. M. Pulham, Esq.) - as viewed in Perelman parody - "Out of these things, and many more, is woven the warp and wool of my childhood memory: the dappled sunlight on the great lawns of Chowderhead, our summer estate at Newport, the bitter-sweet fragrance of stranded eels at low tide, the alcoholic breath of a clubman wafted on the breeze from Bailey's Beach...
...treatment makes pine as hard as oak, oak as hard as ebony. Wood so treated does not warp, split, swell or shrink appreciably. It resists fire, rotting and termites, can be made as strong as many metals. It can be dyed any color so that it never needs painting or refinishing. If the surface is scratched, its glossy finish can be restored by sandpapering and buffing. Impregnated wood makes possible among other things, doors, windows and drawers that do not stick or get loose...
...built at present only with steel from the United States. [Should] such facilities ... be provided to the international group . . . and thus maintain their existing monopoly of pipeline deliveries to the Eastern Mediterranean and through it to Europe? ... In my opinion, an increase in Iraq production will only serve to warp further the present unequal position. . . . The problem of oil in the Middle East is one of seeing that the oil produced in each political unit gets its fair share of the total market...
...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...