Word: goo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Untold numbers of trees defoliated, stripped naked of all leaves. Squishy little creatures hanging from branches, crawling over the sides of houses, creating a sickly goo on roads. People rushing to their doctors with rashes on hands, faces, anywhere they may have brushed against the little pests. Neighbors arguing angrily about whether to resort to risky chemicals. Noisy town meetings. Anguished editorials in newspapers...
...clarinetist and saxophonist who was a fixture in the Duke Ellington Orchestra; in New York City. After playing with Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson and the John Kirby Sextet, Procope joined the Duke in 1945, bringing his low, mellow sound to such Ellington compositions as 4:30 Blues and Swamp Goo...
...walrus GOO GOO GOOJOOB...
...Airport was forced to suspend operations, while a Pacific Coast League baseball game was "ashed out." Residents donned surgical and industrial face masks, if they could find any, and there was arun on pantyhose to protect auto carburetors. When a light drizzle began turning the ash into a pasty goo, even street sweepers and water hoses seemed to be of little help. In Washington's agricultural Cowlitz County, the ash found its way into electrical transformers, causing short circuits and blackouts. In nearby Toledo, Wash., farmers feared that continued power outages would disrupt milking and leave chick en coops...
Plentiful though it is, heavy oil poses problems that begin with getting it out of the ground. Because the crude is so sticky, less than 10% of it will flow to the surface by conventional pumping methods. One way to liquefy the goo is to force superheated steam into deep crude wells for as long as two weeks at pressures as high as 2,500 lbs. per sq. in. The extraction also requires huge amounts of energy. Just to heat enough steam to liquefy and then force three barrels of heavy oil up a well shaft can take as much...