Word: extinguisher
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...chirped: "Please fasten your seat belts and extinguish your cigarettes. We are arriving in Tunis." A moment later she called out the routine "Please do not move till the plane is completely stopped," then disappeared into the pilot's compartment. Tommy gun-toting gendarmes pried open the plane's back door, poured into the cabin while the passengers were still tied down in their safety belts. Ben Bella said: "All right, we're coming out." One by one the passengers, hands high, got down to the tarmac and were taken away. Shouted Ben Bella: "This...
...aircraft that would fly without supporting wings. "Wings are for the birds," he says. "They heat up, and they increase drag. In supersonic flight they create sound and shock waves. Energy is lost. For economy, you have to have an internal flow process. You can reflect and extinguish these shock waves on the opposite walls of the channel that you put them through...
...first of four Hewitt Lectures sponsored by the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Toynbee said that this "attitude" involves two main points: the religion's view of evil, and its treatment of suffering. While the Buddhist seeks to extinguish suffering...
...whole picture, Secretary Dulles felt that the U.S. and its allies "can face the future with new confidence" if they adhere to policies of firmness. Said the President: "In a word, we will stay strong, and we'll stay vigilant, but we're not going to extinguish the hope that a new dawn may be coming, even if the sun rises very slowly...
...Council's action, one of the first to alleviate the city's parking problem, followed a near-fatal apartment house fire in Cambridge on Sunday night which meant over 50 residents fleeing before fire trucks could come close enough to extinguish the blaze...