milkway n.— «The busy service stations, the “milkways” as they are called in the industry, such as the Shell Gamams Service Station in Khomasdal and the Total Wika Service Station in the City Centre, experienced long queues...
mogus n.— «It is all about “mogus,” the term for the generic gasoline that the refineries ship, via co-owned pipelines, into jointly controlled holding tanks. When a tanker truck pulls up to the mogus tank, it is filled with...
Ford Valdez n.— «Conservationists and environmentalists made the Excursion a poster-child for Detroit excess dubbing it the “Ford Valdez,” a reference to an Exxon oil tanker that ran aground in Alaska.» —“End of line for...
spalting n.— «Wood left on the ground for several months, he said, will undergo “a startling transformation and develop a spidery network of black lines.” This process, called spalting, “is due to special fungi that live...
tache d’huile n.— «Gallieni called this carefully coordinated military and social strategy the tache d’huile, the oil spot. Start out and carefully secure a hundred such bases and you are on your way to conquering a country.» —by...
oil spot n.— «The movement would immediately extend into Vento and the Liguria and gradually embrace the surrounding regions “like an oil spot,” either through disorganizing and flanking operations of the militarily less...