Word: airing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...looked fake," she says. The brobdingnagian bauble called the soleil d'or (golden sun), owned by a private American collector, was shown to Margaux during the taping of a French talk show. As a ring of security guards looked on nervously, Margaux tossed the stone up in the air and caught it in her well-photographed white teeth. "I'm good at peanuts too," she said modestly. Are diamonds Margaux's best friends? "I think they are beautiful," she admits. "I'd like to collect them as a hobby...
...night of Aug. 13 was one that Lucy Parlange, wife of a plantation owner near New Roads, La., will never forget. She recalls: "We were sitting up here on the gallery, when we heard this terrific sound, like a sonic boom. I thought the air conditioner in the kitchen had blown up." What had really blown was a giant natural-gas well that probably will make Lucy and her husband, Walter Parlange, royalty rich...
...weeks, a crew of red-suited blowout experts battled to cap the wild well. A crane removing a ten-ton piece of wellhead plumbing was smashed like a Tinkertoy, when the gas jet tossed the load into the air. The crew succeeded in diverting the gas to an open pit, where they set it ablaze to prevent an accidental explosion. By the end of September, workers managed to pipe the gas through a purifying plant and into a pipeline, through which it flowed at an uncontrolled rate of 140 million cu. ft. per day. Says Chevron's Exploration Manager...
Americans have traditionally luxuriated in the intimacy and fragrance of the open fireplace. However, it imparts more romance than B.T.U.s. Most fireplaces deliver only about 10% of the potential heat of the wood, draw in cold outside air and actually remove warmth from the house. As old Ben Franklin observed, "If you sit near the fire, you have that cold draft of uncomfortable air nipping your back and heels ... by which many catch cold, being scorched before, and, as it were, froze behind." Which is why he devised "the New-Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place"-better-known as the Franklin stove...
...long, slow burn, achieved by limiting the amount of oxygen reaching the wood; it also trapped the heat inside the combustion chamber so that it radiated more evenly throughout the room. Modern stoves have become even more efficient through airtight construction, the use of baffles that pass the hot air back over the flame to improve combustion (and heat) and in some cases thermostats and blowers that circulate the warm air. Although some heat is thereby lost, in many stoves the doors can be temporarily folded back, leaving a clear view of the dancing flames-as in a fireplace...