Word: mudding
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Eventually, the workers pumped enough drillers' mud into the well to stop the flow of gas and permit the installation of proper wellhead equipment. Next year the well will go on stream at a manageable 20 million cu. ft. per day, six times the volume of a typical south Louisiana well and enough to meet the daily needs of 61,000 American homes...
Fossilization takes place only under special conditions. An animal or plant that dies and is soon after buried in mud or covered by volcanic ash stands a decent chance of being preserved; one that perishes in a jungle or rain forest will probably break down into its chemical components and simply disappear. Few fossils that are formed survive; most are destroyed by the continuing erosion of wind and water. Fewer still are discovered. Though hominid fossils may exist elsewhere, they are found most abundantly-and frequently-in eastern Africa. There, geological processes have exposed layer upon layer of sediments that...
Both teams adapted well to the playing conditions, avoiding short passes which would have stopped dead in the mud and centering their attack around long boots either to the wings or into the penalty area...
...crisp pace of the game slowed somewhat in the second stanza as the players' legs grew heavy with tramping through the soft, thick mud...
...oven ready for hungry hoomins. Hulking Hairless Joe and his faithful Indian sidekick, Lonesome Polecat, dispensed hair-curling batches of Kickapoo Joy Juice. Dogpatchers went calling on the snowbound citizens of Lower Slobbovia, home of Lena the Hyena, world's ugliest woman. Moonbeam McSwine wallowed happily in the mud and tried unsuccessfully to ensnare Abner with her buxom charms. As Capp once said of his curvaceous creations: "Anyone who likes small bosoms -let 'em read Orphan Annie...