Word: faucet
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...J.T.C.! and how I knew him. As much as you wish!" The most essential element in Campalans' career-the paintings-Aub provided himself. "When I did not know what to do," said Aub, "I simply slopped some oils on a canvas and held it under the hot water faucet." He gave them such names as Coal Dealer's Daughter-whatever popped into his head...
...sophisticated' set who enjoy the more worldly plays and movies and delight in passing on a somewhat spicy story . . . You can't maintain a close relationship with a quantity of cocktails behind you, followed by dancing . . . and then sail home to turn off the emotional faucet and act as if you and your companion were just good friends.'' Separate bedrooms must be maintained -a fact that Claire and John disguise from neighbors by making her bed a studio couch and his a double bed covered with "feminine frippery." They cope with their frustrated desire for more...
...rippled in retreat like scattering minnows. Fifty-eight feet below, in the control room of the submarine, men stood their watches in the eerie green glow of instrument lights. The prison silence was broken only by the whir of a generator, the purr of a hydraulic pump, the leaky-faucet sound of water trickling down the packing gland of the periscope barrel. The sub broke water, the bridge hatch swung open, the skipper and his lookouts scrambled topside. There they began the countdown required before launching a 1,000-mile Regulus-type missile. The sub rocked quietly, like a metronome...
Ignoring the raging cold war over Syria, hard-driving Premier Adnan Menderes of the ruling Democrats campaigned to boost his 441-82 majority on a slogan of "A School, a Road, a Faucet, and a Mosque for Every Village." Menderes obviously had a fat war chest. Having barred all opposition speeches from the air, the wily little Premier ordered 100,000 dry-cell batteries flown in from Europe and passed out free to rural villages so that he could be sure farmers would receive his election harangues loud and clear on their battery-driven sets. Pointing to the new factories...
With the arrival of TIME and the repairman article came a broken faucet in the bathroom and an odd noise in the transmission of the car. The TV set (last week's trouble: condenser) now needs a new picture tube. At times like this I wonder if Grandma's day wasn't better. At least the only thing that broke down then was Grandma...