Word: airtight
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This structural distortion must be eliminated, and the ABM seems like the best place to being. For if we succeed, as Senator McGovern says, "in building a theoretically airtight defense structure but in the process create the kind of allocation of resources that neglects our most acute internal, domestic problem, we may discover that we have built a shield around a value system that is no longer worth protecting...
...time was spent on the substantive issue of whether Fortas, and more particularly Thornberry, were good choices for the positions. That they were opposed by the Senate neanderthals, and that many of the attacks on Fortas were fatuous and petulant, seemed enough to make the case for their appointments airtight and inviolable...
Fielding made the difference. The Springfield pitcher held the usually booming Crimson bats silent, and it was only on errors and close fielding plays that the home forces were able to get on base. The Yardling defense, as usual, was airtight...
...kept, the temperature is 44°, humidity 55%. If the wood-panel oil heated or dried too quickly, the paint surface might crack. To protect against this, the suitcase was turned into what Feidler calls "a traveling thermos bottle"; the painting was wrapped in sheets of polyethylene and sealed airtight to keep it fresh, much like a sandwich in Saran wrap. Tests had shown that the suitcase temperature would rise at most 1¼° per hour...
...21st Century doesn't always startle its audience to this extent, it invariably manages to give it pause. In earlier programs, it photographed an operable mechanical grasshopper that man will use on the moon, and an esoteric airtight container that will extract water from moon rock by heating it to 300° C. Sometimes the producers are lucky enough to be on hand for a rare event, as in a soon-to-be-shown film of a kidney transplant at Cleveland Clinic...