Word: chimneyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deep quarry. I could see the quarry wall opposite us, and the trees on the land above it. Looking to the newly revealed landscape on my left I found the cabin, perched on the brink of another wall of the enormous white pit. Smoke was coming our of the chimney. Tommy, who had stayed behind in the cabin, had started a fire...
...house sits like a jester in a court of sedate plutocrats. Its chimney is rakishly out of plumb. The roof shingles are a motley mismatch. An attached garage is nothing but a skeleton of stone pillars, and the garden is dominated by a magnificent stand of ragweed. The house shows not its facade but its robust posterior to Heathcote Road, one of the best addresses in New York's pleasant suburban town of Scarsdale...
...that women are doing is almost endless. In Canada, lumberjacks have been joined by lumber-Jills. In the U.S. this summer, the Good Humor man may as often as not be a Good Humor woman. In Europe, women have turned into bricklayers, painters, welders, cabinetmakers, watch repairmen, goldsmiths, pharmacists, chimney sweeps and even traveling saleswomen. No less than 85% of Finland's dentists are female, and so are a quarter of the physicians. In both Japan and France, there are women firemen. Norway, like the U.S. and other countries, has hired femailmen to carry letters, and around the world...
...about 11 p.m. yesterday the chimney of the Harvard Square Theatre belched out the first of several blasts of smoke from a fire caused by a leaky oil burner...
Gasbuggy really is. After drilling a well to the top of the chimney, they will tap off gas freed by the explosion and test it for radioactivity. If the radioactive contamination is low enough for the gas to be usable without extensive -and expensive-purification, and if the gas continues to flow into the well in volume, the U.S. may well be on its way to tapping the 300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas now tightly locked beneath the surface of the earth...