Word: faucet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Effort. In Tonawanda, N.Y., a pheasant smashed through a kitchen window in full flight, struck the faucet in the sink and turned on the water, plugged the drain with its body, began to drown, was saved by two boys who happened...
...till 11 o'clock and of wanting to make it run till June, he stages a double retreat from life into show business, filling out the play with colorful backstage detail, phonying it up with facile on-stage emotions. His talent is-flawing again, but from a faucet in dire need of a filter, 'it is depressing to find so much shoddy in a play that can here & there merge deep compassion with burning anger...
...says Hubbard, is a perfect computing machine, incapable of error except when it is supplied with wrong data. An example, typical of Hubbard's cases: a woman is struck by a man, and while she is unconscious he kicks and reviles her. A chair is overturned and a faucet has been left running. She does not "remember" these things because she is unconscious, but according to dianetics her reactive mind records them all in an engram. Later, the crash of an overturned chair and the sound of running water might make the engram "key-in" to her analytical mind...
They had to be shown everything: how to turn on a faucet, how to flush a toilet. When they were told to take showers, one boy took his with all his clothes on. When they were served ham on their first day, not one child would touch it until a teacher explained in Navajo that it was cooked meat...
...minimum of $20,000 a year plus $2 for each machine sold in excess of 10,000). The machine, which has an adaptation of a powerful hydraulic pump previously used for cleaning airplane parts, needs no installation; just plug it into a socket and hook it onto the kitchen faucet...