Word: gushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaky dike. The warm yellow water climbs a foot an hour up the face of the levee. Sweating, grunting workers raise extra barriers of sandbags just ahead of the rising river. Sand-boils, bubbles, slides and settles, one after another, threaten to wipe out all efforts in one great gush of doom. The glare of fusees mixes menacingly with the sweet smell of floating gasoline. Debris swims silently downstream to clog up on the bridges, finally carry them away. A privy goes by, "pivoting slowly like a model in a fashion parade." Fleming conveys the protracted melodrama of a bold...
Normally, a new oil well gushes, has to be pumped only after it has been producing for a while. But Harvey had to pump his well to get it started; not till it had been going for a few months did oil gush up. As his output rose from 60 to 125 bbls. a day, the rush began. By last week, the Spraberry trend was the biggest oil "play" in the U.S., with 522 Spraberry wells completed (including 23 owned by Harvey), 200 being drilled, and 3,000,000 bbls. of oil already out of the ground...
...Communist Utopia-in-reverse, agents and opportunists playing their own cautious angles; through its postage-stamp airfield and its busy railway station pass most of the diplomats who scuttle to & from Peking; from its shrewd businessmen go goods for Communist buyers; out of its newsstands and radio sets gush reams and hours of words from Mao's propagandists-intended not for Western newsmen but for the 463 million Chinese whose every thought the Communists hope to control. Truth and half-truth are there in abundance. The problem is to evaluate, piece together and check reports against material from other...
...between rocket launchings, Director Donnelly unloads the usual "Navy" plot--brass, sweat, and gush. The stereotyped roles of dogmatic admiral, bright young officer, and old-timer crew chief have been played hundreds of times before with the same mediocrity. Unfortunately, the plot is just as mechanical as the casting: Star Glenn Ford gets a clever idea, the admirals give him the runaround, and then he makes a pass at the base chief's secretary. At length he succeeds in blowing up his own petty officer with a "Loon" while the band plays "For Those in Peril on the Sea." This...
...week's end there was double celebration in Rocca Massima: a traditional festival honoring the Madonna, and a party to mark the first gush of water from the new pipeline. Ex-Communist Cianfone brought out his trombone, took his place in the village band...