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...Photographs passed by Navy censors disclosed an important feature of U.S. carrier practice: the use of catapults, flush with the flight decks, for carrier-plane takeoffs. Benefits: fewer losses in takeoffs, more planes (and more striking power) per carrier...
...Flush. In Missoula, Mont., John Brandenburg was jailed when he refused to pay a $5 fine and stubbornly flushed all his money - $1,055 - down a courthouse toilet...
...first faint flush of light that sometimes precedes the dawn is called the false dawn...
...daytime, as they rolled through the sweltering prairie heat, they ran out of water. The toilets wouldn't flush. At night, they curled up against green-plush, straight-backed seats, fitfully brushing at insects and soot that kept pouring in the windows...
...guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. Allowances can be made for Mr. Churchill's statement, however unworthy, in the first flush of his victory...