Word: flushing
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While waters flush down water tongues...
...troopers advanced, a wounded guerrilla staggered into Mission Coordinator George Jacobson's white villa behind the embassy. When U.S. troops tried to flush him with tear gas, he started upstairs, spotted the 56-year-old retired Army colonel there, and fired three shots. The guerrilla missed, and Jacobson finished him off with a .45 that had quickly been tossed up to his second-floor window by troops below. That fearsome finale ended the 6½-hour battle. Five Americans lay dead, as did two Vietnamese chauffeurs for the embassy who were apparently caught in the crossfire...
...escaping from the side of the mountain. They reported the phenomenon to the resort's general manager, Sherman Adams, 69, onetime assistant to President Dwight Eisenhower and an old hand at dealing with volcanic pressures. Adams investigated and found a hibernating bear in a cave. "I'll flush him out in the spring," said Sherm...
...land animals. In the years since, a dozen coelacanths have been found, though Smith never realized his dream of studying one alive. His suicide did not surprise his wife. "He always thought," she explained, "that the best time to die was when a man was in the flush of his manhood, before he became a nuisance...
...meticulous diagrams, the one-volume encyclopedia bravely tackles the explanation of such formidable devices as nuclear reactors, semiconductors, lasers and Polaroid cameras. It also considers the simple household devices and commonplace mechanics of contemporary life that are probably almost as puzzling to many readers: from flush toilets to door locks, from zippers to kitchen matches. The prose is straightforward and clear-which is all the more remarkable since it is an American adaptation of a British translation of the original German...