Word: bageled
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...making it slightly less noisy than a Super Constellation. The trick was done by breaking up the jet stream and funneling it through 21 narrow after tubes instead of one big tube. "The big, doughnut-shaped exhaust roar," said a Boeing engineer, "was broken down into 21 smaller, bagel-sized noises." The loss in efficiency: only 2% loss in thrust (v. up to 20% in earlier supressor devices), plus a 2% increase in fuel...
...hoped to buy time from the Thirteen. Corruption at the top was symbolized by a party given by one of the Thirteen for Gestapo officers; it cost 25,000 zlotys. At the dregs of the ghetto, corruption was symbolized by the episode of a famished woman who stole a bagel, still enjoying a morsel while the blows of the bagel seller fell upon...
...Marjorie Morningstar. As the season's best-plugged heroine hunt progressed, Hollywood jungle drums boomed Carroll (Baby Doll) Baker, Jean Simmons, Elizabeth Taylor and the Old Vic's Claire Bloom for the part. A likely long shot, according to one tub thumper, for Herman Wouk's bagel-belt heroine: Steve Allen's sometime girl singer, Irish-descended Erin O'Brien...
...anniversary (14 years engaged) by catching a cold in her Bronxial tubes; and when she screeches Take Back Your Mink ("to from whence it came"), the evening is made. Frank Sinatra, as Nathan Detroit, not only acts as if he can't tell a Greek roll from a bagel; he sings as though his mouth were full of ravioli instead of gefullte fish. Stubby Kaye and B. S. Fully, both from the Broadway cast, suggest best of all the seraphic moldiness of Runyon's ronyons...
...muscle, tore through the Grand Central Station of my mind to the Chicago of my belly. What for myself did I out of all this want?... Then she rose, Cleopatra-thighed but unasped, and went to her room where she Godiva'd, belly-bundled, a Marie Antoinette with a bagel...