Word: holderness
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...Fuel is burned near the point of highest compression. The energy added to the compressed air by combustion shoves a jet of hot, high-speed gas out the rear end with a noise like thunder. There is nothing inside a typical ramjet except fuel nozzles and a gridlike "flame-holder" to keep the flame from being blown out by the airstream...
...this point Igor Stravinsky stood up, stuffed his black cigarette holder in his pocket, jammed his shapeless little hat on his head, and stalked from the office. That ended the negotiations...
...Hungarians Moscow hates most. Editor in chief was Zoltan Pfeiffer, head of the Independence Party in the coalition government that was squeezed out by the Reds a year ago. Ferenc Nagy (rhymes with dodge), ex-Premier and leader of the Smallholders Party, now a small holder (130 acres) in Virginia, was a contributing editor. Others : Exile Tibor Eckhardt, onetime head of the U.S. "Free Hungarian" movement; Charles Peyer, right-wing Socialist leader...
...Oxford, Ohio, Negro Harrison Dillard set a new kind of record by winning his 67th consecutive race in collegiate competition. The old record-holder for consecutive triumphs: Notre Dame's once great two-miler, Greg Rice...
...grant has provisions for renewal in successive years to a successful holder. It will be awarded this fall...