Word: chimneyed
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...winked at her. "My God," thought Beverly, "that's not a very novel approach." Next he sent her a mash note on the inside of a matchbook cover. Then, dining her in his 25-room house on Lake Erie, he lit a fire but forgot to open the chimney flue; the smoke routed them both, coughing and wheezing. "Mama," reported Beverly when she got home, "I think I've met a man I finally can marry...
...heat engine, a hurricane is formed by spirals of warm, moist air rising from tropical seas. As the heat-packed vapor spins increasingly faster, it converges toward the eye of the storm and is forced upward; meanwhile within the eye, the temperature rises and pressure drops. Acting like a chimney, the walls of the warm vortex continue to refuel themselves and add to the storm's fury by drawing still more moisture from...
...clouds around the eye. As they heated up, these clouds (called a rainband) would also expand and create new low pressure areas away from the eye. The new regions would, in turn, keep the swirling winds and water vapor from converging on the storm's vortex. Thus. the chimney would be deprived of its vital fuel and the hurricane's energy would be spread over a wider area. The ultimate effect would be to reduce the velocity of the winds...
...simply are not available. In San Francisco last spring, police arrested van livers who were solving that problem by dumping waste on the streets. Heating is another problem. Lenny Hirschtritt took a practical approach: he installed a huge potbellied coal stove in his 1961 Ford Econoline and put a chimney on its roof. "It gets so warm in here," he says, "that at 20 below I've had to open a window." Considerably less conventional is the California couple who warm their van on cold nights with the body heat of their eight dogs, who snooze under...
...daughter during her husband's absence. Mrs. Jean Roseland, 41, an ash-blonde mother of three teenagers, lost her office job. Marie Mesmer, 45, a former Los Angeles drama critic and a divorcee, had no one to look after her house. It was burglarized twice, and her chimney collapsed during the February earthquake...