Word: caps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks, a crew of red-suited blowout experts battled to cap the wild well. A crane removing a ten-ton piece of wellhead plumbing was smashed like a Tinkertoy, when the gas jet tossed the load into the air. The crew succeeded in diverting the gas to an open pit, where they set it ablaze to prevent an accidental explosion. By the end of September, workers managed to pipe the gas through a purifying plant and into a pipeline, through which it flowed at an uncontrolled rate of 140 million cu. ft. per day. Says Chevron's Exploration Manager...
...Riots: "If, in your judgment, your presence is clearly inspiring, continuing or intensifying a dangerous, or potentially dangerous, disturbance, cap your cameras and conceal your microphones regardless of what other news organizations may do ... Avoid coverage of 1) self-designated 'leaders' if they appear to represent only themselves or 2) any individuals or groups who are clearly 'performing.' " Had these rules been in force, how different might the history of the 1960s have been...
Freshman Rick Kief (126 lbs.), a Massachusetts high school champion from Norwood, moves into the spot vacated by Yasunaga. Despite the fact that the departed Rhodes Scholar went 10-1-1 last year to cap a brilliant four-year career, Lee is so impressed by Kief that he expects no drop-off in performance at that spot...
...Sclaise seemed concerned that his players might be cold if they stood around outside the long. So he had them run around during a 25-minute practice. Against Yale on Friday it may well be that the hard work typified here will pay off with a win that would cap a superb first season as a varsity team for the women's soccer contingent...
...than wrathful-no showy thunderbolts from him. Rather, he is the sort who might decide to make his presence on earth known not to Billy Graham, but to an assistant manager of a supermarket in Tarzana, Calif. It even seems natural for him to pass among us in fishing cap, Windbreaker and see-through plastic raincoat. His style reinforces one of the film's basic points: we place too much emphasis on status these days, and this, combined with our absorption in work (a lot of which turns out to pollute the globe), is the source of most...