Word: semicircular
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...Fifth Avenue GHQ, the two have offices to match their personalities. Mike Cowles, deliberate, slow-spoken, has a sedate, paneled, 13th-floor office, a neat, clean desk. His wife's, eight floors below, has bright lime-yellow walls, a royal blue rug and a littered blond mahogany semicircular desk. Fleur dresses dramatically, sports an uncut emerald ring as big as a horse chestnut, talks fast and crisply, smokes and likes Scotch & soda. Both she and Mike wear black hornrimmed glasses. In their spare time, Mike plays tennis ("enormously good," says Fleur), while she paints...
...airplane, and he was being shown the emergency escape panels in case the craft had to come down on water. Related Hull: "The fact of several exits reminded me of the old gentleman in Tennessee who kept three cats. A friend, visiting him one day, noticed three large semicircular holes cut in ... the front door. 'What are those for?' he asked. 'To let my cats out,' was the reply. 'But why won't one hole do them?' 'Because,' the old gentleman retorted emphatically, 'when I say Scat! I mean Scat...
...Members of the National Funeral Directors Association met in Boston for their 66th annual convention. Some exhibits of new equipment for the trade: the "Jewel Box" ("a gem of a casket") with a semicircular peephole and well-padded velvet and satin interior; the "Blickens 4 in 1 Positioner," an elaborate arrangement of clamps and bars for forcing a rigid body into a suitable position of repose...
...wish they didn't. Doctors know little about its cause (they prefer to call it "motion sickness," since car, air, and seasickness are the same thing). They think it may result from nerve impulses touched off by the sloshing about of fluid in the inner ear's semicircular canals. At least four people in ten are susceptible to motion sickness, some so readily that watching a tennis ball in play, spinning on a stool, or even hearing a sea voyage mentioned turns their stomachs. Most people, after a few days or a week at sea, develop a certain...
Other improvements planned for the White House: a new $50,000 heating system; a presidential museum (for the knickknacks of ex-Presidents) ; a $100,000 landscaping job on the White House grounds; a semicircular staircase of marble and iron grillwork for the East Wing...