Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer needed. The premature shutdown and temporary loss of coolant caused the reactor's fuel rods to overheat. They reached a temperature of around 2,500° F., which could have led to a meltdown. Water pouring into the reactor overflowed to form a 250,000-gal. lake on the floor of the reactor building. Some of this water, laden with highly radioactive products, was pumped into the plant's auxiliary building, a structure not designed to handle high-level radioactivity. Gases given off by this water were picked up by the plant's ventilation system...
Saturday morning was gloomy on Lake Carnegic. There was a light wind blowing and a misty rain falling--but at least the water was calm. The stage was set for a heavyweight showdown between Radcliffe and Princeton (with Cornell thrown in for additional wake production...
Saturday, April 14, 1979. The Radcliffe heavyweight crew avenged its 1978 defeat with a six-second, open-water victory over the Tigers on Princeton's Lake Carnegie. The J.V. picked up a three-second...
...Chili Open is held on Nesmith Lake when it is frozen over a foot solid. The participants are given colored golf balls, holes are gouged out of the ice, and evergreen trees are placed along the slick fairways...
Surprisingly enough, it is possible to trace playing golf on the ice back to a distant origin. Samuel Parrish, one of the founders of Shinnecock Golf Club in Southampton, Long Island wrote: "One winter's day in the '90s Major Morton and myself went over to Lake Agawam to hit a few balls around on the ice. The Major suggested that I make an attempt to break all records for driving a golf ball. We selected a suitable spot and I managed to hit a good one which, with a strong wind, carried to the ice and, once...