Word: dripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majors, for all their fame as fresh-air lovers, spend a terrifying amount of time in dank laboratories. Here they rub pebbles on porcelain streak plates, poor at crystals through dime-sized hand lenses, and drip hydrochloric acid on unsuspecting limestones...
...leave faucets or showers open when they are not actually being used. A drip can waste 15,000 gallons of water a year and a small steady leak can waste 1,000,000 gallons a year. Save water. --from the New York Times, January...
Alger Hiss faced his enemy. Last week he sat under the water-drip torture of cross-examination by Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Murphy, the man who is trying to convict him of perjury. If the Government's accusations were true, Hiss had spent 15 years leading an almost incredible double life, and Murphy was set on proving it. Hiss's face showed the strain of the 28 days of the first trial, of the 23 days so far of this one. The strain was also apparent in the frozen, drawn face of Priscilla, his wife, who sat behind...