Word: holing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Union Oil Co.'s 150-ft.-high Platform A, beneath which oil was leaking steadily from a fissure in the ocean floor. Barges carrying 15,000 barrels of sealant were towed to the platform, where the crew pumped the plasticlike substance down into a 3,500-ft. hole in the ocean's bottom at a rate of 1,500 barrels an hour. For days, capping efforts had been stymied by high seas, and escaping oil had continued to spread out from the long-legged rig at the rate of three miles per hour, cutting a devastating swath through...
...these dangers don't scare passengers away, there may be enough other annoyances so that SSTs will become commercial flops. The zooming acceleration will be too fast for the standard passenger's taste, Shurcliffe says, and the peep-hole windows will make for an unpicturesque flight. The speed advantage could conceivably overcome these annoyances, but Shurcliffe suggests a more compelling limitation. Since the needle-shaped SSTs will hold fewer passengers but cost more to run than conventional jumbo jets, fares will be much higher for SST trips. And so, Shurcliffe suggests, airlines that had stocked up on fleets of SSTs...
John Cross does fine as the witty jumping-jack-practicing Adam. No mere Dagwood, in the end he knows he's unique. Adam agrees to face God after the apple rather than be trampled in the refuse hole (an admirable draping of rust and brown rags by Thomas Mistick) by the jealous elephant because "at least God is human...
...harvest baskets of grain, fish, olives and grapes. To win, a player must collect all Ten Commandments by completing various Good Samaritan acts. Cadaco has sold about 600,000 of the games. And then there is Bible Bowling, in which marbles are rolled down a miniature bowling alley into holes. Depending on what hole the marble lands in, a card 'is selected by the bowler, who must answer a biblical question to score points. Sample card: "For six pins on your first ball, who is Barabbas...
...idea behind smudging is ridiculously simple. Squatting in the middle of orange groves all over California are filthy black smudge pots. The pots have a ten-gallon belly at the bottom and a four-foot smokestack rising out of the belly. There's a hole on the top of the belly where cheap and grimy smudging oil is poured in, and there's a hole at the top of the smokestack where grimy smudging smoke belches out. When the pots are lit and roaring, they produce an astounding amount of smoke, some noise, and a little heat. The heat...