Word: spheroidal
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...late. Reverberations of steel on linoleum echoed off Dave's mad cackle, as the spheroid struggled down the hallway, fighting for maximum velocity. Bouncing like a racquetball from hell it finally impacted, expressing its tensile strength in an ugly, permanent scar on our tutor's door...
...football is a spheroid, measuring 11 to 11-1/4 inches long, with a short circumference of 21 to 21-1/4 inches and a long circumference of 28 to 26-1/2 inches. It is constructed of a rubber bladder inflated 12-1/2 to 13-1/2 pounds per square inch, and it weights 14 to 15 ounces...
...perpetrator: a hulking 6-ft. 6-in., 220-lb. Minnesotan, now working in New York City, and last seen in pinstripe knickers. His victim: a frail denizen of Toronto, covered with feathers. The weapon: a spheroid mass of hide, cork and yarn flung carelessly, at perhaps 70 m.p.h. So the charge sheet might have read last week on New York Yankee Centerfielder Dave Winfield after his arrest in Toronto for fatally beanballing a herring gull...
Hurl that spheroid down the field...
Aden and Marjorie Meinel, a husband-and-wife research team at the University of Arizona, got $50,000 to develop their idea of using tumbleweed, the huge spheroid plant that grows wild on arid lands in the Southwest, as a burnable fuel. After harvesting, the bush is ground to the consistency of coarse flour and then compacted into log shapes held together by its natural resins. The 7.5-lb. "tumblelogs" have a heating value equivalent to a similar amount of hardwood...