Word: hot-air
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...gliders; both, to his way of thinking, produced minds which could have grasped the scientific conquests involved; both had carpenters and artisans capable of building such machines, and both made the fabrics, paints and materials needed for their construction. "But they didn't," he sadly concludes, "even invent the hot-air balloon...
...fact that a particularly obscene four-letter word will be continually scratched on the wall surfaces of nearly every building (since replastering is expensive and ineffective, janitors simply scratch deeper, change the word to BOOK and leave it as mute evidence of evil confounded). The city has ceased installing hot-air hand dryers in school washrooms (children quickly began filling their nozzles with ink, which blew over the next user...
Coal Smoke & Mud. Everything had gone wrong from the minute the 43rd arrived at Pickett, 8,000 strong. Buildings, roofless and rickety, abandoned since World War II, dotted the landscape. Dirty green camouflage paint hung in peeling festoons from the barracks. Windows were smashed, hot-air heating ducts rusted and broken, the ancient latrines filthy, the mess halls flooded with water from leaky pipes...
...little sympathy for their subjects and would have felt more in their element with monkeys. But the cat has never lacked supporters, who have praised it for its immense resourcefulness and high intelligence. Charles Dudley Warner's famous cat Calvin, for instance, was careful to open a hot-air register to warm his bedroom before retiring for the night...
...Geneva and Bern ("hot-air factories," his friend Ussishkin called them), Weizmann continued to argue. He fought assimilationists and Marxist revolutionaries alike. When Lenin, Trotsky and Plekhanov (who frequented the same cafés) heard of his "counter revolutionary" talk, Plekhanov, in a rage, objected. Weizmann shot back: "But Monsieur Plekhanov, you are not the Czar...