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In a February incident captured on video by several passengers, enough oil entered the bleed air supply of a Boeing 717 that thick plumes of smoke started piling through the vents midflight.

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Instead, he watched the price of Vikings-victory contracts rise as other users piled in.

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Along the way, the injuries just kept piling up.

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That’s because even when the Eagles had been piling up wins to start the year, they hardly looked like the team that won last season’s Super Bowl.

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And Lucky’s monologue—veering inanely through realms including religion, academics and sports—is delivered by Mr. Thornton not, as it usually is, as a galloping pile of gabble, but with a musing seriousness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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