Word: cushioned
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...vision was limited by the slits of our periscopes. The noise of battle was fainter in our ears, but it was still perfectly audible. Sweat began to etch rivulets down dusty faces and clot in the stubble of three-day beards. With brows pressed against the rubber cushion above the periscope we watched the battle panorama unroll. The smell of cordite and the smell of dead bodies filtered through the vents and seemed to enter our pores...
...storage dam. Other dams would be needed farther down. Farmers and other users of water on both sides of the border will eventually pay back the construction cost; power companies are expected to pay 30% of it. If started just after the war, the project would be a regional cushion against a postwar slump...
...view of the future, especially dividend-wise. The Department of Commerce reported that dividends paid in December brought the year's total to $3,541,400,000, up only $12,600,000 over the preceding year. A large chunk of the rest of profits went into reserves to cushion the shock of reconversion...
...engineers have made exhaustive test flights in DC-3s loaded to the higher weight limits, and the Air Transport Command calmly loads its DC-35 up to 29,000 Ib. for military flights. But Dave Behncke is unconvinced. "What I'm thinking of," he argues, "is the cushion of safety which the pilot must have to land safely if something goes wrong while in flight, and that cushion of safety is narrowed too much with these new weights...
...cable. His long white hair reached almost to his shoulders. He shaved himself with a razor used by George Washington. He wore a black frock coat, a black stock about his neck and, when he went visiting, had one of his grandsons trot along after him carrying an air cushion to ease his sharp old bones when he sat down...