Word: waft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place "Gallows Knoll." And he had meant no offense when he turned on the music. He just liked to hear hillbilly music, and turned the radio up so that he could listen as he worked in his yard. Besides, he was not happy to hear the recorded hymns that waft from the cemetery's public-address system every Sunday. "It boils down to this," he explained. "I've plots in that cemetery, and I'll probably be buried there when I die. But I don't like being in the middle of a cemetery when...
...precisely 9:32 p.m., sometimes a few seconds later, the gentle tones of a battery of diesel locomotive horns waft among the grinding multitude, and a tall man strides through blowing taps between two blades of grass. He's pretty good. As you walk out the door a girl frisks you with her eyes, to see if you're stealing any books. They've got to be careful; one guy last year started sewing pages of Gibbon's Decline and Fall in his topcoat lining, and he had sent the first volume to the bindery and was half way through...
...testing the 30-odd ingredients of a perfume such as Chanel No. 5, not all the smells that waft up to the Great Nose are pleasant. To "fix" the perfume by uniting other ingredients, perfumers use such sour or fetid-smelling substances as musk, castoreum (made from beavers' testicles), ambergris (a secretion in the sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while...
...regime, McGann might give the impression that he would in the role to a T. Yet most of his friends know him as "Uncle Tom." Perhaps it's because he likes to run sessions like a high level cocktail party-often in a student's room-with the waft of sherry in the air and popcorn crackling over a file. Or it may be his willingness to talk about his four children with just as much interest as on Latin American diplomacy. At any rate, McGann always enjoys chatting with students, although he is in the most feverish period...
...freely in space, the crew would feel no gravity at all. In this "zero gravity field," they could neither stand nor sit unless held firmly in position. If they tried to sleep in bunks, the slightest motion would flip them out. The jet effect of even gentle breathing would waft them across the cabin...