Word: flashings
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...interconnected so that if one engine fails, the others will use its share of fuel and burn longer. Backing up the engines is an incredible array of pumps, valves, gas generators, high-pressure tanks and cables. Saturn SA-5 is as complicated as a crewless ocean liner operated by flash-quick automatons...
...when Adlai isn't busy squiring official visitors like Lady Bird Johnson, he often goes out with Mercy McCambridge, and their names flash up the next day in columns...
Suspicious of one another's motives, they flash aged but envenomed claws. Dicey accuses the unmarried Mumbo of lesbianism, wonders why Sheikie has no children. Mumbo wonders why Sheikie never made it as a dancer, accuses her of social climbing. Both Mumbo and Sheikie are suspicious of Dicey's relationship to her dusky butler...
...BLUE. The color is defined not scientifically, with reference to pigment and wave length. For BLUE the Shorter waxes poetic. "Of the colour of the sky and the deep sea"; and also, "of a flame or flash without red glare; esp. in phr. To burn b, as a candle is said to do as an omen of death, or as indicating the presence of ghosts or of the Devil. (1994)" Also, the color associated with constancy, "hence, true-b," Or pertaining to the political party which has adopted blue as its color, in England, the Conservative. "To vote b." "Affected...
...matches today should be at 130 pounds, where Harvard's stocky Brian Smith goes against the Diplomats' sophomore flash Saul Shimansky. Another will come in the 157-pound class, where Mamana takes on returning letterman Paul Martin. The only other Diplomat letterman, Bob Dubner, takes on sophomore Lamar Fertig in the 177-pound boat...