Word: vacuumized
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...dual displacement engine" (DDE). A small (6 in. by 6 in. by 1? in.) black box mounted on the fire wall is fed information from five strategically placed sensors. These devices monitor the temperature of the engine coolant, the engine speed, the transmission setting, the engine manifold vacuum pressure and the throttle angle...
...truth, of course, is that no parody is intended in The Widow's Children. The author sets her dismal characters in their tedious situation quite seriously, as if advancing the theory that any well-described vacuum constitutes a novel. The central non-event of the evening is that Laura's own mother Alma has died a few hours ago, but only Laura knows this. She refuses to tell anyone, presumably because the evening will seem even more pointless and ghastly when the truth finally is learned. "One has to take your mother seriously, but not in the usual...
Hours of agonizing soul-searching lie behind each of the conclusions these four frustrated females have reached. Every move is preceded by an involved discussion of personal motiviations, as though each woman acts in a vacuum, untouched by the outside world. The rationale is always clear; when Nikki decides to embark on her first affair after leaving her husband and moving to the city alone, she thinks to herself, even as she is led to the bedroom, "Obviously there was nothing to do now but go through with it. It was what she wanted, she might as well admit...
...fight against Christians and Syrians in the north. In effect, the southern half of Lebanon has been left without any government, and its 360,000 Moslem, Christian and Druze inhabitants-mostly poor and scrambling farmers-have been abandoned to fend for themselves. Israel is moving determinedly into the vacuum. TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff last week toured the mountainous 80-mile Israeli-Lebanese border and sent this report...
...There's a leadership vacuum in this country, sir." I volunteered...