Word: geysered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know Kintner; unlike his chic, gregarious wife Jean, 42, he is not fascinated by his on-camera employees, rarely attends company parties for talent. He keeps a neat, boomerang-shaped desk in an office adorned by a mottled abstract, a wifely gift that he describes as "either an oil geyser or a quiz show going up in smoke." At night Kintner disposes of dinner with a sandwich and watches TV; he tries to catch every NBC show at least once a year...
...stopping U.S. tests "would delay and probably prevent'' development of low-radioactivity ("clean") weapons essential for U.S. defense, e.g., antimissile missiles. In its last test at Nevada Proving Grounds, before the stoppage, the AEC successfully set off a Hiroshima-sized underground shot ( 20 kilotons) that spouted a geyser of dirt but proved beyond doubt that the Russians could make important underground tests without leaving a scintilla of telltale fallout-thus leaving detection to highly fallible, faraway seismographs...
Anyone watching a geyser, hot spring or fumarole (volcanic steam jet) in the U.S. West may well wonder why the earth's hot interior is not used as a source of energy, in the manner of volcanic steam power plants in central Italy. Last week Pacific Gas & Electric Co. of California announced that it has struck a deal to make electricity out of underground steam produced jointly by Magma Power Co. of Los Angeles and Thermal Power Co. of San Francisco...
...rest of the story; his insights and outlook are highly reminiscent of Huck Finn. He contributes many a stomach-turning episode, notably his pouring a brew of poisonous Indian medicine down ailing father McPheeters' throat through an oil funnel: "He spit the first dose straight up ... like a geyser, but the medicine soon took the fight out of him." The trouble is that much of Author Taylor's carefully researched Western history is too grim to blend with comedy. But much of the book is engaging and bouncy, particularly when, at journey's end, Jaimie...
...story itself was an ancient one, but in the summer of 1956 it enchanted the travelingest, doingest, seeingest people on earth. They marveled at Yellowstone's Old Faithful geyser. They gasped at the grandeur of the Grand Canyon, at the fire falls cascading down the face of Yosemite's Glacier Point, at the stalactitic vastness of New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns. They agreed that there is nothing more beautiful than the Great Smokies when the rhododendron and the laurel are in bloom. They whispered in the cathedral silence of the towering rain forests of the Northwest...