Word: leake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment of silence in memory of "several hundred" Soviets who perished over the weekend in a gas-pipeline explosion in the southern Ural mountains. Some three hours before the explosion, technicians apparently noticed a dip in pressure along one section of the pipeline. But instead of searching for a leak, they turned up the gas flow to get the pressure back to normal, allowing huge quantities of propane, butane and other highly flammable gasses to escape and form an atmospheric "lake." Fatefully, two passenger trains on the famed TransSiberian Railway were passing each other when the gases, ignited probably...
...exploded at 1:14 a.m. as the trains passed each other on opposite tracks between the towns of Ufa and Asha, 745 miles southeast of Moscow, Tass said. The news agency said gas seeped from the conduit and caught fire, but it was not clear what caused the leak...
...forming to use Westminster Abbey's toilets. The Eisenhower White House produces little excitement, partly because there wasn't much, but mainly because Press Secretary James Hagerty ran a "tight, tight ship." Later there was the smothering style of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "For you, Russ, I'd leak like a sieve...
...leak unexplainedly stops. It appears that the pipe is connected to a sprinkler system run by a timer. An engineer will respond to correct the problem...
...elaborately constructed facade of scummy, violent toughness. Lee is a hardened pioneer--one never doubts his stories of adventure in the American desert, the "true" West of this play's title. Yet behind his belching, swaggering bravado, Norman allows Lee's well-concealed dream of respectability and acceptance to leak through his psychological defenses...