Word: kicking
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...Great, thank you President Summers, you didn’t mean to do it, but I think this is going to be your legacy,” Wenc said. “That’s what gave a lot of that a good kick in the butt. Those statements threw the entire country, and this became a huge issue...
...leak out. Lapindo's engineers responded by pumping heavy drilling mud into the well to seal the cracks and restore pressure. Then they began to pull out the drill. Davies thinks that while they were removing the drill on the morning of May 28, they set off a massive "kick," in which high-pressure water and gas from the surrounding rock flowed into, rather than out of, the borehole. To prevent a potentially dangerous blowout, the drillers shut vents at the surface, effectively corking the pressure inside the well. But it was too late. Water from a pressurized aquifer thousands...
...Richard Swarbrick, a British expert on geological pressure and a consultant to oil companies. Usually, when drilling in geologically unstable areas, engineers install steel casing at greater depths, where the low density of the rock might allow fluid to escape from the borehole. In the event of a kick, the casing allows drillers to maintain the integrity of the well. Swarbrick, who has reviewed Lapindo's drilling plan, says the company originally intended to install casing at depths...
...pregnant in China is captured by Beijing's security services and returned to North Korea. She is sent to prison and allowed to carry her pregnancy for a few more months. Then her sister is arrested and brought into the same prison, for one purpose: to watch as guards kick and beat her sister in the abdomen until the unborn child is dead. The guards then stomp off, braying that it's what you get for marrying a dirty Chinese dog. Journalists, I know, are supposed to be objective. Here's objectivity for you: North Korea is the most barbaric...
...been in some of the tough losses we’ve had, and then being down 12, and just digging in.”Down eight, junior guard Drew Housman found captain Brad Unger in the post. Unger scored a right-handed hook in the lane to kick off the run with 2:21 to play. “More than anything it was do or die at that point,” Unger said. “You can’t get down by too many against Princeton—six or eight points against Princeton...