Word: geysering
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Since there are two playing fields, the hose was alternated daily upon the field not used by the players. Nicknamed "Ol' Faithful," the geyser-like spray of water formed a backdrop worthy of Billy Rose's Aquacade to the scene of men running, tackling, passing and kicking...
...emerging from the night like a moving blot. When the animals reached the wide moat in front of the wall they plunged in, began swimming across; yet there were no visible herdsmen. A sentry fired into the flock. One of the dark objects in the moat erupted in a geyser of flame and water. Then men on the wall witnessed an amazing thing: some of the sheep seemed to be flipping off their black wool skins and running away on their hind legs...
...signed autographs, paid their bus fare ($34.50 apiece) and started off for Old Faithful. Mrs. Dewey, recovering from a violent case of poison oak she had picked up in her home town of Sapulpa, Okla., seemed to be showing some strain. They had their picture taken beside the Jet Geyser, were disappointed by the poor catches being made by stream fishermen, but cheered up when they saw a bear amble out of a stand of dead spruce. Everybody stayed in the bus. The Governor had been warned that the bears were vicious...
...Another geyser, hotter than ever, boiled up from the underwater world of ballpoint pens. As usual, it was started by Milton Reynolds, the Old Faithful of ball-pointism (TIME...
...lakes may be an accumulation of thaw water at the end of the Antarctic summer. But there was at least a chance that they are heated from below. (The geyser region of Yellowstone is slightly heated in this way, and many parts of the world have warm springs which tend to keep lakes from freezing.) The romantics and the tale-spinners could take it from there...