Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year, an effort to save money by lowering the temperature in the Houses to 40 degrees ended in disaster when frozen waterpipes in several River Houses burst, causing nearly $100,000 in damages...
Thirteen radiators in South House burst over Christmas vacation when temperatures in Bertram Hall dropped below freezing, causing flooding and extensive water damage to several suites...
Pipes and radiators burst in many Houses last year during Christmas break when the Department of Buildings and Grounds lowered temperatures to save fuel costs...
...heat reduction policy is intended to save energy and the rising oil costs. Last year, rooms were supposed to be kept above 40 degrees Farenheit but a sudden temperature drop caused water to freeze in some pipes, which subsequently burst pipes in Dunster, Eliot, Quincy and Mather Houses...
...agents burst from their hiding places and arrested him without a struggle. They identified him as Edwin Gibbons Moore II, 56, who retired in 1973 after a 20-year career with the CIA. He was charged with delivering defense information to a foreign government, unauthorized possession of national defense documents and embezzlement of U.S. property. Thus Moore became the first CIA official ever accused publicly of trying to sell out his country...