Word: focused
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in history, the budget for the services would go to Congress in one piece. There would doubtless be plenty of lobbying by individual services, but the U.S. could focus on the overall cost of defense...
...them in big, delicate drawings done with a brush and Chinese ink, and oils gleaming with thin glazes of subdued color. He worries continually about his methods, buttonholes fellow painters for advice. "I never know just how to go about a picture," he explains. "Each one takes a new focus...
...cold cream. Sample: in the '90s, Niven's older sister (Jayne Meadows) stands in the hallway of their house holding a large brass key. He has just sworn never to touch it again (or enter the house) as long as she lives. The camera narrows its focus to the key; the key turns in a lock-in the hand of Niven's grandniece (Evelyn Keyes) half a century later...
...flexible as cellophane, changing its shape appreciably (in millionths of an inch) with each new position as the telescope swings with the stars. In cells on the under side of the mirror (see cut) are 36 complicated mechanisms, each with 1,100 parts, designed to control this out-of-focus warping by varying pressure...
Berman said that Soviet law had made "interesting innovations" in the trial of criminal cases. Russian prosecutors "focus on the state of mind of the accused" and call in psychiatrist to find out what drove the accused to crime, he reported...