Word: plumes
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...half, leaving one side deep and raw and the other covered, as if by snowdrifts. The area of the Saturnian ring that follows in the wake of Enceladus is slightly thicker than the rest, as if the moon were pumping out some kind of frozen exhaust, leaving a plume in its wake like the smoke from a steamship...
...identities of the column’s two authors remain a mystery—the winning applicants insisted on anonymity, writing under the noms de plume of Scott McBain and Veronica Claremont...
...TONS Weight of the satellite-guided Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed the "Mother of All Bombs," tested in Florida last week. After impact, a plume of smoke 3,100 meters high was visible for 64 kilometers...
...than an opium den denizen) or an active assertion of ego (exhaling smoke extends your "space," creates a cloud, a gentle miasma, a box around you). A cigarette is an undomesticated pet: a tiny dragon (drag-on) between the fingers, allowing you to emphasize a verbal point with a plume of smoke or, when puffed, with the dragon's flash of fire...
...Chinese have long looked to the skies--at least since Wan Hu, a 16th century official, lashed 47 gunpowder rockets to a chair with kites attached to it, ignited the rockets and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. With technology having improved significantly since then, the Chinese are on the verge of sending a Long March 2F rocket hurtling into space from a secret launch facility near the Gobi Desert. The payload: Shenzhou (divine vessel), a capsule carrying China's first astronaut. The mission: enter a low Earth orbit, circle the globe 14 times...