Word: vortexes
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...wrought-up Martha hurl "Screw you!" across the room at her husband. Nick (George Grizzard), aged 30, is a new member of the biology department; his wife Honey (Melinda Dillon) is four years younger. At first they are onlookers, but before long they find themselves sucked into the vortex of a maelstrom. The fun refuses to remain innocent, and the games become deadly: in turn they play Humiliate the Host, then Hump the process more liquor than does the entire assemblage at the "Libiamo" party in La Traviata...
...fall comes swiftly, as one by one, the characters in Phaedra plunge into the vortex of tragedy, stark and classic...
Shortly before Descartes published his Principles of Philosophy, the Church had condemned Galileo for his belief in a moving earth cosmology. Descartes' definition enabled him to avoid condemnation by claiming that the earth is at rest in its vortex...
...favorite jacket, a straw-colored, nubby silk. He sat unsmiling and as if alone with his thoughts. Previous portraitists, working mostly from photographs, have tended to crystallize the popular image of a beamingly paternal President. Wyeth saw and showed an elderly, strong-minded, dedicated public servant, calm in the vortex of great events...
...Douglas solution: small streams of air were diverted from the engine's compressors and shot downward and forward. The air jets hit the runway, blow away the converging air that would feed a vortex. No vortex forms, and indigestible objects stay on the ground...