Word: faucet
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...Green Cup booth, EAC member Samantha A. Goodwin ’03 ran demonstrations about the amount of water wasted by a leaky faucet...
...Think when you drink (or floss, or scrub). When you're doing your dishes, or brushing your teeth, or just running water into a glass, turn off the faucet when you're not actually using the water. Don't let the water keep running while you're examining your back molars or soaping up your dinner plates...
...bobbing back and forth in the steam, as he moaned in deep, monosyllabic tones the few words he knew: “no,” “stop,” “hot.” I reached into the steam and turned off the faucet. The water had melted away layers of my brother’s shoulder, rendering it a red mass of naked muscle, bleeding from the veins I could see more clearly without flesh obstructing the view. After the paramedics rushed him to the hospital, I went to my room and worried...
...took a breath. I took two breaths. I was sure the building would be bombed. I looked for stairs. I kept thinking I needed clean air. I found a bathroom. I didn't realize I wanted water until it was there. Four men inside. Two fighting over the faucet. I shared the toilet with another man. We drank almost the whole bowl...
DIED. ALFRED MOEN, 84, plumbing-fixture pioneer; in Destin, Fla. Moen hatched the idea for the single-knob faucet as a college student in 1937 after he was scalded by the then ubiquitous two-handled variety. His namesake company claims to sell more than 70% of the kitchen faucets...