Word: chute
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...demystify technology" for all home owners. "There is a powerful feeling of tranquility that comes from knowing how one's house is put together," Owen writes. "My childhood would have been somewhat less anxiety-ridden had I realized...there was no way for pirates to crawl... from the laundry chute to... my bed and stab me through my mattress...
...most, of Guns N' Roses' success to their unrelentingly sexist and uncompromisingly violent lyrics or to their forays into xenophobia, racism and sadomasochism. Rock 'n' roll has always been filled with sexist, violent bands, but very few of them sell 14 million copies the first time out of the chute. What sets the Gunners apart is that they are a genuinely electrifying band that neither looks nor sounds like the interchangeable Whitesnakes, Poisons and Bon Jovis that make up the drab MTV universe. What the Gunners play is very, very good. What the Gunners say is very, very...
...girl last week clung fiercely to the ritual. After giving birth in the early hours of the morning in her bedroom, after cradling the 6-lb. 10-oz. boy until dawn, after carrying him into the hallway, stuffing him inside a plastic bag and throwing him down a garbage chute, the little girl did the only thing that made sense in her life. She went to school...
...reached the mother's neighbors, several of them clasped their chests and gave thanks to God. "The baby will never want for someone to look out for him," one of the women told New York Newsday. "He is blessed." It was as though surviving the maw of a trash chute would forever protect him from his own neighborhood...
...flames flickered from the tail section. "The explosion came from the back of the plane," recalled passenger Fred Guyor. "Suddenly all this shrapnel came flying overhead, like a wave in the ocean." The survivors poured out of two exits, some breaking bones as they jumped when an evacuation chute failed to open...