Word: chimney
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...such as "a screamer" or "a gripper." Somewhere, at a big publishing house where they know the lingo, I imagine a middle manager crying, "Jeezus, Larry, have you seen the spring gripper from Random House? They're going to roll us up, smoke us, and blow us out the chimney this year...
...burn moldy surplus), the trade deficit (American corn, not imported oil), the deforestation crisis (chop corn, not trees), the safety crisis (corn isn't dangerous, and you can put this stove flush against a wall -- or even sit on it -- because the housing doesn't get hot) and the chimney crisis (Dove-Tech doesn't need one; you can vent it the same as you would a dryer, or hook it in to your existing ductwork...
...slave quarters vanished long ago. The blackened chimney of the plantation house still stands in the wooded farm country of Prince Edward County, 60 miles southwest of Richmond. Vanessa Venable's ancestors, who were slaves there, dug the clay that made the bricks...
...Vanessa Venable owns the plantation, or 600 acres of it. The chimney is her haunting and triumphant little ruin. Mrs. Venable, a schoolteacher for 42 years and past president of the Prince Edward County N.A.A.C.P., lives with her husband, the Rev. H.R. Venable, in a brick bungalow on the site of the slave owners' house...
...line snakes out of Pearl, the row of cars picks up speed, and the cab's chimney spouts black smoke that swirls around the head of Steve Harris, who is kneeling on the house's gray-green roof and raising low-hanging telephone wires. The town is left behind, and the landscape shifts to fields of cotton and soybean. As he approaches the Ross R. Barnett Reservoir, Malone pulls a lever on the floor, cranking a cable that raises the house an extra foot so it just barely clears the side railings. "I've been doing this for 20 years...