Word: showering
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Einstein's solution of this dilemma was characteristically bold. "Light," he said, "is both corpuscles and waves." A light ray is a shower of energy particles called "photons" whose energy increases with the wave frequency of the light...
Below the tower of the Bank of the Manhattan Building, thrusting more than 800 feet into the murk, there rained a shower of debris-an officer's cap, a parachute, the wing of a plane. On the skyscraper's 58th floor, beyond a gaping hole in the wall, lay the rest, the wreckage of an Army light Beechcraft transport, the bodies of its Army pilot and four passengers, including a WAC officer...
Gripes & Lobbyists. In a wild and tumultuous session the House fell upon the Administration proposal with cries of outrage. Spurred on by local gripes and lobbyists roaming the corridors, the legislators stumbled over each other to strike out offending passages and to offer a shower of crippling amendments...
...almost all of the fertile grainlands, and there are few surface outcrops. If, as some Canadian and London experts warned that it might, the single borehole assay proved a fluke, thousands of speculators and small investors might see millions in paper profits disappear as fast as a summer shower on the parched Orange Free State fields...
Each unit in the new project provides two or three bedrooms, a living room which also serves as a dining room with a kitchen in one end, and a bathroom with stall shower. A two-burner electric plate furnishes heat for cooking, while room heating is provided by an oil burner. Two small non-electric ice-boxes are furnished to each family. Top monthly rent for a three-bedroom unit is $35, for a two-bedroom unit...