Word: seep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hole in a mountain ridge, ground shock may shake down buildings many miles away. Luckily, at least three of the most promising canal routes go through almost uninhabited country, with little but jungle and a few huts to be damaged. Another possible danger is radioactivity that may seep up through the bottom of the canal. There is no way to estimate how much will do so, but the strong current that will run through the canal should carry most of it away...
...second. In place of a speaker which would make the solar outbursts audible, each receiver has a cathode ray tube. The spot moves up and down the fluorescent cathode ray screen in a straight line, synchronized so that as the receiver sweeps from higher to lower frequencies the spot seep from bottom to top of the screen. Thus the vertical displacement of the spot corresponds to frequency, and the intensity of the spot is made to vary with intensity of the solar signal at that frequency...
...detergents in modern cleaning agents. They wash shirts gleaming white and they make dishes shine, but the bacteria that swarm in soil and sewage do not eat them with the same appetite they have for old-fashioned soap. Rejected by the bugs, the detergents sweep through sewage plants and seep out of septic tanks into the ground water. They are not poisonous, but who likes creamy froth on his drinking or swimming water? Humans have no more taste for the stuff than the bugs...
Very bad music has taken many forms. Bach wrote a good bit of it in one style; Victor Herbert ground out much of it in another. But most obnoxious of all are the mindless whinings that seep out of loudspeakers as "background music." Within this broad category are several subdivisions: airport music, Lawrence Welk music, dentist office music, Waldorf music...
Granted too that the Administration had a two-year history of appeasement and retreat before Cuba became an unavoidable issue. But I can't believe that our no-win foreign policy will seep back, once the polls have closed...