Word: bulb
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Keels, fins and rudders require more complicated tests. With the help of companies such as Boeing and Digital, designers perform wind-tunnel experiments using special computer codes that help show lift and drag forces on the keel. Shapes of keels now vary widely, from the basic lead-filled bulb at the end of a fin to the hydrodynamic "winged" keel, a Y-shaped structure that has less underwater drag and more lift. The latest design: a tandem keel that combines the rudder and keel fin and eliminates the need for a separate rudder. Developed in shipyards with great secrecy...
...filthy men to share not only the same water but the same towel, sometimes unlaundered for months at a time. Meals that never varied: bread, cheese and tea for breakfast and dinner; boiled rice and vegetable-something-or-other for lunch. All this savored without benefit of a light bulb. Sometimes without benefit of even a candle. Often alone...
...underground group whose other theatrical pranks have included Coed Prison Sluts, The Miss Vagina Pageant and That Darned Antichrist. One afternoon last year an actor friend of theirs, Becky Thyre, was at Faith's home entertaining them with an impersonation of Marcia, the eldest Brady girl. A light bulb went off for the trio of self- described "Brady obsessors": Why not put an entire Brady episode onstage? "We discussed screwing with the story lines and updating them, making them not so innocent," says Faith, 27. "But we decided that just doing it straight would be enough...
...that he spent time in a mental institute. But that could have been culled from the book jacket, and the text does little more to enlighten us. The reader is left feeling that the work of paging through this novel, the time and the electricity for the light bulb, doesn...
...examined her daughter, "I wish you could transplant my uterus because I certainly have no use for it anymore." The doctor looked at her curiously. "He asked me how old I was. I said I was 36, which I was at the time. Suddenly it was like a light bulb switched on for all three of us. She was born without a uterus. I was young enough to lend her mine...