Word: smokes
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...destruction is total. At the eruption's epicenter - known to workers at the site as the Big Hole - a 100-ft. (30 m) plume of white smoke billows into the sky, obscuring the sun and spreading the sulfurous odor of rotting eggs. On a narrow causeway leading to the caldera, dozens of trucks idle in a queue, waiting to deliver soil for the massive earthworks meant to contain the mud. Already, they have transported more than 88 million cu. ft. (2.5 million cu m) of dirt to build eight miles (13 km) of levees around the site. Dozens of cranes...
...front of the director’s office on the 4th Floor” contains composite photos that tilt more as the pictures build vertically, so that the furniture grounds the picture while the books and ceiling are jumbled to resemble a distortion created by rising smoke, suggesting the room’s dissolution into air. In other pieces, the distant planes are skewed more than the foreground, raising questions about the accuracy of depth perception. Some works, like “Long Room with current magazines on the 2nd Floor,” practically beg to be seen close...
...Mohsin Hamid is the author of the novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist
...more about coughing and eye-watering than deliciousness. Nevertheless, I am crouched behind a chair for cover from potential glass-and-horseradish shrapnel as Dave Arnold drops some soon-to-be-clarified juice from test tubes into his newest kitchen appliance: a centrifuge from the 1950s. Smoke immediately wafts from the cord, and a horrible whirring sound builds. "We should probably have safety goggles on, huh?" he asks before the grinding of metal-on-metal gets so loud, he feels compelled to unplug the machine. When the noise subsides, he looks at me and smiles. "Stuff you shouldn...
...Officer arrived at Lowell House’s G entryway to a report of a fire alarm. Officer arrived and was informed that an individual attempted to light a fire in the fireplace and the smoke caused the alarm to activate. Cambridge Police Department (CFD) extinguished the fire. Fire Group arrived on scene and CFD then deemed the building safe for re-entry...