Word: leaking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could stand no more. Red flares signaling distress whooshed up from the conning tower, and the radio put out the call "Mayday, Mayday." Under the sea's battering, the submarine developed a 17° list to starboard. The vessel's large electrical storage batteries threatened to leak acid that could fill the hull with poisonous chlorine...
...faulty fuel cell was taken "off-line" by the astronauts yesterday after a leak was detected in the catalyst which generates electricity by reacting hydrogen and oxygen. While mission flight operations rules dictate a minimal mission of 54 hours when only two fuel cells are working, the Columbia could still operate the full duration of its planned 124 hour, 83-orbit mission, a spokesman for United Technologies, which manufactures the cells, said yesterday...
Within three years after the University donated the underpass to the city in 1965, the bridge began to leak "drastically" during every rainstorm, forcing city employees to pump out thousands of gallons of water, public works commissioner Conrad Fagone said...
...suit against Harvard in 1976--one year after Cambridge made final repairs to the bridge--city officials charged that Harvard knew about the structural deficiencies when it relinquished ownership of the underpass, Highly said. He added that Harvard has for the past decade denied prior knowledge of the leak...
...thousands of pounds of both had to be destroyed. Other rumors blamed birds, dogs and cats for the contamination, and frantic families put hundreds of pets to death. Because the first cases were reported near the U.S. airbase at Torrejon de Ardoz, people even talked about an accidental leak from American chemical warfare weapons which they be lieve are stored at the base. Spanish officials laughed off such charges. Said one: "If this is the most toxic germ weapon the Americans can manufacture, I don't think their enemies have much to fear...