Word: swashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other end of the cylinder; the emerging gas is cooled and then moves toward an adjacent cylinder where heat is applied once more and the process is repeated. As the gas shuttles between interconnected cylinders, the pistons move back and forth and piston rods push against a so-called swash plate, or disk...
...swash plate, in turn, forces a drive shaft to rotate...
...combines a variety of styles. Among them: old-line rock 'n' roll (Oh! Darling), low blues (I Want You), high camp (Maxwell's Silver Hammer), folk (Here Comes the Sun). Though the listener here and there finds such things as a vocal chorus or a swash of electronic sound, most of the time the instrumental textures are uncluttered by overdubbing. Rarely has John played better guitar than on I Want You (She's So Heavy), a cunning combination of two songs with a chilling, mean blues throb. Rarely have Bassist Paul and Drummer Ringo achieved more...
...Ohio. He mined the eyewitness reports of Fort Pillow survivors as preserved in the National Archives. Now a doddering 24, and an old soldier of the campus (he is taking his Ph.D. in English at Vanderbilt University, Nashville), Lentz has published a book with none of the sweet-magnolia swash and polished ballroom buckle of Gone With the Wind but much of the visceral realism that characterized MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville...
...intention whatever of rushing away. Said he to Lady Bird: "The Cabinet's gone. Congress is home. You and I and [Bill] Moyers would be there all alone." So the visit was ex tended for the rest of the week - a week in which Johnson buckled one swash after another...