It is roughly shaped like a large pear, and when properly ripened, its dark green skin covers a meaty, melon-like pulp that has about the consistency of a ripe Bartlett pear, but oily.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

The spiral ‐ shaped mouth with horny tooth ridges is reabsorbed together with the spiral gut.

The museum building is shaped like a longbow similar to those used at the battle by archers under King Henry.

The shell is generally ear shaped, presenting two to three whorls.

Designed by famous yacht designer L. Francis Herreshoff, this is essentially the same pattern as an admiralty anchor, albeit with small diamond shaped flukes or palms.

It is shaped like an inverted mushroom, the head becoming buried in the silt.

It is an unusual-looking instrument, distinguished by a fairly large body with squarish bouts, and either a " D "- shaped or longitudinal oval soundhole.

In mammals, the adrenal glands ( also known as suprarenal glands ) are endocrine glands that sit at the top of the kidneys ; in humans, the right adrenal gland is triangular shaped, while the left adrenal gland is semilunar shaped.

Amok is often described as a culture-bound ( or culture-specific ) syndrome, which is a psychological condition whose manifestation is strongly shaped by cultural factors.

The city's appearance today is predominantly shaped by the key role it played in Germany's history in the 20th century.

However, bryozoan colonies are founded by an ancestrula, which is round rather than shaped like a normal zooid of that species.

The Bay of Quinte () is a long, narrow bay shaped like the letter " Z " on the northern shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, Canada.

While a throwing stick can also be shaped overall like a returning boomerang, it is designed to travel as straight as possible so that it can be aimed and thrown with great force to bring down game.

When the term is used in this sense, the brick might be made from clay, lime-and-sand, concrete, or shaped stone.

The shaped clay is then fired (" burned ") at 900-1000 ° C to achieve strength.

The roof is a glass and steel construction, built by an Austrian steelwork company, with 1, 656 uniquely shaped panes of glass.

It is usually the size and shape of a katana, but is sometimes shaped like other swords, such as the wakizashi and tantō.

The star is suspended from the ribbon by a rectangular shaped metal loop with the corners rounded.

Obviously, such a Northern tourist's purpose is somewhat akin to a child's experience with Disneyland: he wants to see a world of make-believe.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

Fortunately, it is possible to be somewhat more concrete and factual in diagnosing the involvement of values in education.

Having hedged its bets in this way, PHS apparently decided it would be possible to make some sort of determination after all: `` At present radiation levels, and even at somewhat higher levels, the additional risk is slight and very few people will be affected ''.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

The assisting musicians from the Vienna Octet are somewhat lacking in expertise, but their contribution is rustic and appealing.

This whole development is certain to be of interest to the readers, for the idea has so often been mentioned, somewhat wistfully.

Rates for American cars are somewhat higher, ranging from about $8.00 a day up to $14.00 a day for a Chevrolet Convertible, but the rate per kilometer driven is roughly the same as for the larger European models.

This calculation results in an enthalpy rise which is somewhat high because it assumes a mass flow equally distributed over the plug cross section whereas in reality the mass velocity is expected to be smaller in the regions of higher temperatures.

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

It is of interest that her menarche was somewhat later than the average for the girls in this group.

It will be seen that where the scope is similar, the Athabascan ratios come out somewhat higher ( as indeed they ought to with a total ratio of 2.8 as against 3.5 or 4: 5 ) except for verbs, where alone the Athabascan ratio is lower.

First is the long and still somewhat obscure process of preparation, planning and discussion.

The tendency for general business activity to soften somewhat is becoming more evident.

Although the pause in the advance of general business activity this year has thus far been quite modest, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the softening process will continue into the first quarter of 1961 and possibly somewhat longer.

It is as follows: `` The usual sensitivity tests showed that the specific qualities of skin-perceptiveness ( pressure, pain, temperature ), as well as the kinesthetic sensations ( muscular feelings, feelings in the tendons and joints ), were, as such, essentially intact, although they seemed, in comparison with normal reactions, to be somewhat diminished over the entire body.

A quiet but sturdy theme, somewhat folklike in character, appears whenever the old monk speaks of the history he is recording or of his own past life:

The consequence of this is that the girls at Brooklyn College outnumber the boys and do somewhat better academically.

Missionary outreach by friendly contact looks somewhat different when one reflects on what is known about friendly contact in metropolitan neighborhoods ; ;

The reason, says the Housing Center, is that the builders invited to the intentions conference `` are generally among the more successful businessmen, and usually do somewhat better than their fellow builders ''.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.

`` I'd like to know just which it is that those guys don't understand, the liquor or automobiles ''.

The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.

Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.

Yet within this limitation there is an astonishing variety: design as intricate as that in the carpet or miniature, with the melodic line like the painted or woven line often flowing into an arabesque.

For the beatnik, like the hipster, is in opposition to a society that is based on the repression of the sex instinct.

It is therefore not surprising that they resist the lure of marriage and the trap of domesticity, for like cats they are determined not to tame their sexual energy.

Jazz, like sex, is a mystique.

Hieronymus, like Piepsam, makes his protest quite in vain, and his rejection, though not fatal, is ridiculous and humiliating ; ;

He is, like Phillip Marlowe, too alienated to be reliable.

A point like p gets information directly from n, but all information beyond n is indirectly relayed through n.

Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.

But is that not like going to a chemistry laboratory and blindly pouring out liquids and powders from an array of bottles and then, after stirring, expecting a new wonder drug inevitably to result??

The making of distinctions, like the perception of the great distinctions made, is an inordinately difficult business.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

But I insist upon believing that even when it is lost, it may, like paradise, be regained.

`` What I'd like you to comment on is the criticism leveled at your Committee ''.

I would like to straighten out a misconception about the dress Mrs. Coolidge is wearing in this painting.

Now an abiding difficulty of paragraphs like the foregoing is that they appear to preach ; ;

Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.