Word: leaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before sunset, the sky went black from a gathering northeaster. When the Amphitrite sprang a leak, Luttrell pointed her back to shore. But the rising gale was too much for the two large engines. Crippled and off her course, the Amphitrite hit a sand bar near the mouth of the Cape Fear River...
...discount of 14% on the official rate of $2.80. At this rate, slick continental operators could buy Malayan rubber or Australian wool (telling the British it was for their own account), then transship it straight to New York and undersell Britain's direct, dollar-earning sales. This "leak" in Britain's tight control on sterling-into-dollar exchange was a potent cause of sterling's devaluation in September...
Devaluation had plugged the leak, but sterling's recent fall has once more made such deals profitable, thus put new pressure on the pound. As sterling wobbled, other currencies sensitive to sterling shook also. In Italy, the lira skidded to 688 to the $1, the lowest point since last March...
Inmates of the Kirkland House Annex went unshaven yesterday, and Shannon Hall, the home of the Army R.O.T.C., also went dry as the City of Cambridge Water Department turned off the water supply. Early in the morning a leak had developed in a main under the corner of South Street, and Boylston Street...
...Cambridge Water Department crew worked until 5 p.m. before stopping the leak, but the unwashed got their water back by 3:15 p.m. The Water Department is not sure what caused the leak...