Word: faucet
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Seeping in from the West Coast, a jangling jingle known as Bloop, Bleep* the song of the leaky faucet, was beginning to inundate the nation. Modeled on the ancient Chinese water torture, it had a similar effect on its hearers. Half a dozen bands had already rushed to market with recordings...
Inch, Ell. In Cleveland, Mrs. Jessie Salsburg graciously allowed a bus driver to use her front yard faucet to fill his steaming radiator. All the drivers on the route followed suit, in three months ran the Salsburg water bill...
...repairmen, on the scene by afternoon, volunteered the information that at 9 o'clock he had discovered over an inch of water on the floor coming from a faucet in the secretary's private shower room. He said it had clearly been running all night. "Same educated person went in to turn on the water after the city water main broke," he commented...
Hardest hit by the calamity were people who, finding their taps supplied only the merest trickle, left the faucet open only to be inundated when Boston water was diverted into Cambridge. Or maybe it was the people who lived downstairs from them...
Stuart used to get up before the rest of the family. "To get to the wash basin, he had to climb a tiny rope ladder which his father had fixed for him. . . ." But he could not turn on the faucet. "So Stuart's father provided him with a very small, light hammer made of wood; and Stuart found that by swinging it three times around his head and letting it crash against the handle of the faucet, he could start a thin stream of water flowing-enough to brush his teeth in, anyway...