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3/4-in. solid-core wood, but it has a panel at the bottom that slides flush with the floor upon closing, eliminating that critical acoustical gap found at the bottom of most bathroom doors. To ensure further privacy, most builders added extra insulation to bathroom walls wrapped pipes in rubber, and installed toilets that flush almost without a sound...
...women and children, as they had done in a similar situation last year, South Vietnamese troops tried to knock out everybody with gas. They failed because of adverse winds, and had to retreat. The last use of gas was on Jan. 27, when Viet Nam government troops tried to flush a guerrilla force from a heavily fortified network of trenches, tunnels and caves, but again were foiled by tricky winds...
...itching for action. Thus it was with considerable relief that the Marines got word that one company could move out to probe the nearby ridges and ravines. Cautiously the company fanned out in separate platoons to begin a 2½ day search for nesting Viet Cong. The first flush was not long in coming: that night one platoon startled some seven V.C.s, who took off running as the Marines fired after them, winging at least...
...flush of success, Butler sent poorly officered troops into combat at Big Bethel-the war's first battle-and got whipped. Though Big Bethel was soon forgotten in the greater Union calamity at Bull Run, it established Butler's reputation as an inept field commander. But when New Orleans was taken, Butler was sent to take over the occupation...
...perishable and 8.5 billion pounds of non-perishable foods annually; their subway vending machines yield close to 2,000,000 pounds of pennies. Daily, they chomp 3,500,000 pounds of meat, swig 460,000 gallons of beer, pull 21 miles of dental floss past their molars, guzzle and flush 1 billion gallons of water. The municipal corporation alone owns a physical plant worth more than $15 billion. And every facility is inadequate. No adjective is enormous enough to suggest the concentration of people, commerce, religion, sport, finance, entertainment, education, and art that is New York, the mightiest community...