Word: muffler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interruption. In Seattle, Lloyd A. Mclsaac explained that he was just on his way to a repair shop when police arrested him for operating a car with defective brakes, headlights, window glass, horn, muffler and tires...
...Look. Many of the Security Council members returned grudgingly to Paris from their Christmas holidays to take up the Indonesian case. The shivering Council met on the cold stage of the Palais de Chaillot; all week long the U.S.'s Philip Jessup sat huddled in his overcoat and muffler. The atmosphere was strained. The Dutch knew that their fellow U.N. members were about to jump on them with both feet. Said one Dutch delegation member: "That was a calculated risk we had to take." The Dutch also knew that the risk was not too great; had not the British...
From France's ornately somber National Assembly building one day last week emerged one of the world's least known and (at the moment) most important politicians. He was huddled in a black overcoat and brown woolen muffler, as if trying to withdraw into himself before the winds of winter and discontent that wailed about him. His black Homburg, tipped far over his pale blue eyes, almost scraped his nose, perhaps the most remarkable French nose since Cyrano de Bergerac's-a long, melancholy nose whose moody descent ended in a surprising and somewhat rakish twist, thus...
...swollen orange moon, hanging low in the sky like a Chinese lantern, peered fitfully through the clammy fog. It was a raw night, and Parisians pulled their coats tightly around them as they hurried back to unheated homes. Beside me, huddled in muffler and tattered topcoat, Anatole Carvin, 61, sat on a rickety stool and hawked his roast chestnuts...
First a conventional Army liaison plane flew across the field at 300 feet, roaring like an elevated train. Then followed the same type of plane, with an improvement. The sound it made was like wind in the willows. A muffler and a special propeller had reduced the plane's "noise pressure...