Word: chimneyed
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...where the development formula has long been: "Build a brick box with a hip roof and you can't miss," Designer Parker Folse offers a $16,850 two-bedroom house with a 200-sq.-ft. balcony jutting over the living room, a butterfly roof, a massively handsome fieldstone chimney that anchors one side of the house, which contains 1,275 sq. ft. of living area...
...wide spread hurricane havoc of 1954 and 1955, the U.S. Weather Bureau began an intensive program aimed at learning how to slow a hurricane down and make it change course. Observations from air planes and balloons showed large quantities of supercooled water high above each hurricane's heat chimney - the rising column of moist, warm, low-pressure air near the storm's calm eye. Meteorologists speculated that if this water could be turned to ice, the energy released in the process might change the chimney's pressure enough to calm the raging winds...
...Weather Bureau sent a strike force of airplanes on a "bombing" mission aimed at Hurricane Esther's heat chimney. Into the chimney they dropped eight finned, 130 lb. bombs which spewed a cloud of minute silver iodide particles as they fell. The crystals acted like small ice "seeds," and supercooled droplets of water instantly froze around them. Instant icing released the latent heat of fusion, equivalent to the energy of eight 20-kiloton atomic bombs. In one hour, radar showed that a 160° segment of the chimney had been knocked out. Maximum wind speeds dropped by as much...
...Apostolic Palace. It was only the second day of voting by the 80 cardinals who had gathered there to name Pope John XXIII's successor.* But no one anticipated a long conclave-and the expectations were not wrong. At 11:22, smoke began billowing from the rickety metal chimney that led upward from the Sistine Chapel, where in a ceremonial stove the used ballots were burned. Twice the day before, a few puffs of white had first appeared, but then the smoke had turned a disappointing black-the signal that no Pope had been chosen. This time there...
...shown, but his method of disposing of their remains is made clear: in the kitchen is a long black table, a meat grinder, and a small black stove. One victim sees the coal scuttles for her own cremation, and noxious black smoke puffing from Landru's chimney*hints at similar fates for others. Each smoke signal cues a clip from a World War I newsreel showing doughboys going over the top to their death. Chabrol thus seems to justify his Landru (to whom he and Sagan are lavishly sympathetic throughout the film) by suggesting that killing is killing, whether...