Word: slittings
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...knew that the laminar (smooth) airflow they wanted could be had by sucking any turbulent air into a wing's inner cavity, putting theory into practice proved a stubborn puzzle. Dr. Pfenninger worked on his LFC (laminar flow control) wing for 23 years before perfecting its closely packed slits that are only a few thousandths of an inch wide. Under each slit, a small chamber gathers the incoming air and channels it through pin-size holes into ducts that lead to streamlined nacelles hanging under each wing. Inside each of those nacelles, a pair of light, powerful gas turbines...
...wearing the jacket of a veterans' organization, and Stern's heart turns over. "It meant the man had come through the worst part of the Normandy campaign, knew how to hold his breath in foxholes for hours at a time and then sneak out to slit a throat in silence. He was skilled as a foot fighter and went always with deadly accuracy to a man's groin...
...alleged withdrawal of its invading armies, a deadly apathy settled over India last week. The government desperately needed gold to pay for war purchases, but few patriots were willing to turn in their hoards, even on the attractive official terms for payment. Civil defense measures were a joke, slit trenches being dug in New Delhi were both too shallow and too narrow, and a scandal boiled up over the substandard cement used in air raid shelters. So hard up was the government for arms that it asked India's maharajahs to turn over their tiger-hunting guns to defenseless...
...very proper when she played the London Palladium for the Queen, Singer Eartha Kitt, 34, came back to earth in Bonn at the annual Presseball, which marks the opening of the West German capital's social season. Decked out in a slit gold lame gown, Eartha purred I Want to Be Evil with such wickedness that the high-ranking audience cheered and President Heinrich Lübke came up to congratulate her after the is-minute show. Lübke's wife Wilhelmine insisted on meeting...
...trouble comes when the female lays her eggs. She picks a tender twig, saws a slit in it with a rasplike ovipositor on her stern, lays her eggs in the slit, and soon dies. The weakened limbs may break or die too. After several weeks the eggs hatch, the larvae crawl out and drop down on the ground where they bury themselves for 16 years, 10½ months. Then, on the first hot day of May, they climb out of the ground, shed their shells, sprout wings and start a plague...