Word: leak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Britain's Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton referred to this situation in oblique understatement: he told U. S. newsmen he was "embarrassed" by a leak in his blockade at Vladivostok. Presumably he was much more than embarrassed. According to the New York Times, Dalton's ministry believed that Germany's textile position had been critical, feared now that cotton shipments from Russia soon would have it out of danger. Washington's balancing act between aid to Britain and economic overtures to Russia (TIME, Jan. 6) had produced a new dilemma...
...also had leak-proofed tanks (which Martin and Manufacturer Leroy Grumman had for years vainly begged the Army and Navy to use), armored cockpits...
...such facts as these leak out of the occupied Netherlands Dr. Seyss-Inquart does not yet know. Other facts leak out too. To trick British airmen into wasting bombs the German Army of Occupation built a vast fake airfield of wood, with hangars and planes painted on it. Next night a lone British plane flew overhead, dropped a lone wooden bomb...
...better close that slow leak under your nose before I vulcanize...
...afternoon last week. Repair Foreman Ernest Jones noticed a leak in one of the river-water pipes. He sent a gang of workmen to repair it. They found a little water oozing out of an old valve, plugged the leak. Then, according to department custom, they opened the valve, to maintain even pressure with 15,000 other valves in the system. Without knowing it, they had opened an old valve connecting the river water with the drinking water...