Word: compressional
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Water While It Rolls. But for those not so politically sensitive, there were plenty of other foreign models, as well as the "1962½" models from Detroit. Sports cars, once a European specialty, are sprouting in the American lines. Oldsmobile's is a coupe called Jetfire, with bucket seats...
The Seven. Among the couths there are seven poets of proven powers. Richard Wilbur, 40, is a first-rate technician and has a dashing way with a phrase-almost too dashing; sometimes the reader can't see the poem for the words. W. D. Snodgrass, 35, a less spectacular...
The ladies have not yet learned the Anglo-Indian's snobbery, and they accept Dr. Aziz's impulsive invitation to visit some local caves. Here the effort of compression undoes the adapter. In the novel, the reader is made to understand that each woman is already under a...
The paragraph as composed by Vaughan is not to be confused with the paragraph as defined by grammarians. Sometimes Vaughan's product is no more than a sentence, and seldom does it exceed two. When successful, it is a marvel of compression, laced with wisdom or wit. "The paragraph...
*Blow-by is Detroit's name for the unburned fuel vapors that escape from the cylinders of an internal combustion engine during the compression stroke. From the cylinders, the fuel enters the crankcase, where its hydrocarbon-rich fumes mingle with the vapors from hot engine oil, then slip out...