Word: crosshatched
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...good journalist knows what maps are for. You Crosshatch the Congo, underline Berlin, point an arrow at Viet Nam and - voild - an instant rundown of the world's trouble spots. Regular readers of the Sunday New York Times, for example, feel cheated when the ominous-looking Times map of the world shows fewer than a dozen diagonally shaded peril points or a score of fat, black arrows to denote developing crises. But the fact was that last week it was hard to add up all the trouble spots without a cartographer's score card...
...rising in steel and zeal. New buildings loom high against the slate-grey winter waters of Lake Michigan. Bulldozers cut great swaths through slums; in their wake thousands of new dwellings are being planted. New classrooms keep pace with the growing school population, new expressways crosshatch the megalopolis, manufacturing and income are steadily climbing. Chicago-once described by home-grown Author Nelson Algren as a city on the make-is a city on the move (see color...
Lamphere claimed to have been a professional wrestler billed as "the Indiana Cyclone," also a ship's carpenter and bosun's mate. He told Munchausen stories about having had his appendix removed aboard a tugboat in Ireland, of exploratory kidney surgery in Japan. A crosshatch of surgical scars showed how often he had been under the knife. Disarmingly...
...filmed re-enactment of the sidewalk arrest. Wyatt used the film, along with footage of the begowned Kahler doing a few dance steps. Then for an "insight into this age-old, worldwide psychological problem," the live camera turned to Kahler, seated in a jail uniform before the Crosshatch shadow of prison bars...
...Independent Sloan has lately taken to painting rather conventional, Matisse-like nudes, with a peculiar crosshatch finish that leaves them looking like partially-grated carrots. But his quizzical impetuosity still bubbles as effervescently as ever. At the Petitpas dinner, while fellow oldsters and admiring youngsters roared applause and dishes clattered, John Sloan stoutly upheld the cause of the Independents, rambled wittily on everything from his recent operation to his theory that Hitler is a frustrated artist...