Word: alighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lengthened and inside its throat is placed a grid of hollow, perforated cross-pieces. When maximum power is needed, fuel is squirted into the stream of hot gas racing out of the tailpipe. There is plenty of heat to ignite it and plenty of oxygen to keep it alight. So a vast yellow flame bursts out of the pipe, and the plane gets a mighty shove forward...
Easy Company's orders were to sit tight near the British consulate until morning. A drizzling rain had begun to fall. We wrapped ourselves in ponchos and tried to get some sleep but it was hard to sleep. The sky was alight with the red glare from half a dozen fires in the harbor area. Naval guns thundered intermittently. Now & then we heard bursts of small-arms fire and the flat, deadly sound of mortars...
...conditioned rooms will have an outside exposure and a built-in television set. Travelers who dislike the nuisance of parking their cars and entering a lobby in rumpled clothes, won't have to. They will be able to drive into a 475-car underground garage, register as they alight and take a special elevator direct to their floor...
General Marshall came up fast on the outside in an open Cadillac. He looked cold and not very honored, but he smiled at the man next to me. A lot of people didn't see him; the Cadillac swept by the reviewing stand and the General didn't alight. Only the police, the man with the mace and the hatchet-faced man knew what was going on; the hatchet-faced man, I noticed, hovered at the door of the Copley to keep back souvenir seekers. The General went...