Word: seep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exploded three 30-kiloton devices that had been placed about 450 ft. apart in a vertical tube more than a mile underground near the hamlet of Meeker in western Colorado. The goal was to crack the surrounding sandstone and create a huge cavern into which the escaping gas could seep. But when the AEC and its private-industry collaborator. CER Geonuclear Corp. of Las Vegas, began test drilling at the site after the explosions, they made an embarrassing discovery. The blasts had apparently created three separate gas-filled caverns instead of one. Thus the amount of gas that flowed through...
...feasibility of utilizing the heat lost in transfer from the Cambridge Electric Company to the North Yard. "The steam pipes are housed in tunnels to ease repair. Inside, the pipes act like giant radiators," Hall said. "In some places, if we just opened a door, the heat could seep into the building." Hall cited Weld Hall as an example...
...insidious burblings that followed me around the airport. I tried frantically to escape them. I fled into the coffee shop. They followed me. I darted into the bar. They followed me there too. They even trailed me into the rest rooms. Since that time, whenever cheerful and inane melodies seep out of wall speakers, I look uneasily over my shoulder...
...just don't know what would happen seismically after you've wracked the earth 140 times," says Thomas Ten Eyck, Colorado's Director of Natural Resources. In addition, Denver Geologist David Evans believes that the blasts would create subterranean radioactivity that would sooner or later seep into the Colorado River system-and contaminate the drinking water of 27 million people in seven states...
...keeping the music on an even keel by keeping the time and most of the beat, and most importantly, filling out the sound as though there was a horn section. Ask Keith Richards, he's the best around. But his energy and his unbounded onstage joy carry Poco, and seep into Timothy's bass playing. George's drumming, and Paul's guitar work, resulting in five people chanelling their creative energies into the joy of making music for people...