Word: ventless
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...1950s. My taste was too elevated to tolerate frozen vegetables, supermarket ice cream, one-from-Column-A Chinese restaurants, off-the-rack clothing and clunky domestic automobiles. Yuck, how Middle American! My refined sensibilities required only the best: fresh asparagus, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Sichuan and Hunan restaurants, ventless Italian suits. But I was never one of those yuppies; they drove BMWs...
Downstairs, Clerk Rowan phoned in the alarm. While he frantically roused the sleepers, flames and gas ballooned up the two elevator shafts and the two narrow stairways to the ventless roof. Stopped there, the seething mass backed up in search of outlets, shot down hallways with flamethrower force, began melting brass doorknobs, powdering plaster and licking at closed doors. Whenever a door was left open, death entered. At 3:50, when the 60-piece fire department started spindly ladders up along its scorching walls, the "fireproof," 33-year-old Winecoff, which, like most Atlanta hotels, has no outside fire escapes...
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