Word: chute
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When the hour of execution finally arrives, the killers will be transported from their bunkers in airtight, fire-resistant containers. At the death house, they will be loaded onto conveyor belts, stripped by remote-controlled machines, then plunged down a chute into a 2700-degree F inferno. Anything that comes into contact with these untouchables during their final transport--wraps, pallets, gloves--will be incinerated as well. Thus America will bid an unsentimental farewell to 30,600 tons of chemical weapons...
Experiments performed with toxic materials arecarried out under the protection of a fume hood, adevice which carries harmful fumes out of thelaboratory by means of a chute and large ceilingfan...
...hooded silhouettes of the French commandos. "In spite of the gunshots," she says, "we were reassured by the orders they were shouting to us, the impression that the situation was in hand. We crawled to a rear door, jumped into the void and landed on a chute." Another passenger, traveling with his family, saw a mobile ramp full of gendarmes pass his window and knew an attack was imminent. "I told my wife and children to duck down," he recounts. "There were explosions, gunfire, but we didn't see anything. That's all. I had the impression that it only...
...Beans of Egypt, Maine, adapted by Bill Phillips from the novel by Carolyn Chute, has this advantage over just about any other movie one is likely to encounter these days: it takes marginal American lives seriously. It does not patronize them. It does not invest them with tragic significance. It does not turn them into case studies. The film has a style that might be called sympathetic objectivity. Under Jennifer Warren's clear-eyed direction, it simply, almost uninflectedly recounts what happens to Earlene when she finally crosses the road to share Beal with Roberta. This new life takes...
...Chicago-based alternative-rock quartet Veruca Salt is named after a character in the children's book Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, a spoiled brat who is thrown down a garbage chute by 99 angry squirrels. It's a provocative name because there are a lot of whiny alternative bands that deserve to be disposed of the same...