Word: seeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...southeastern Washington is owned by the Federal Government. Its disadvantage, in the view of environmentalists, is that it is in the Columbia Basin. The Energy Department proposes carving a cavern in the basalt rock some 3,000 ft. below the surface, and contends that the radioactivity could never seep into underground water sources or the river. Many job-conscious residents of the three nearby cities of Kennewick, Richland and Pasco were happy that their area remained under consideration. "We're better educated about nuclear energy here," said Dorothy Schoeppach, manager of the Pasco Chamber of Commerce...
Despite the hospital's efforts to protect the identity of the parents, information about the mother, Teresa, 23, began to seep out last week. Baby Fae's unmarried parents are an impoverished couple who moved from Kansas to Barstow, Calif, 90 miles northeast of Los Angeles, about two years ago. According to an NBC report, both parents had brushes with the law in their home state: the mother for passing bad checks, the father for disorderly conduct. Though the couple had lived together for five years and had a 2½-year-old son, the father ? deserted Teresa a week...
...stuff does not have to be entirely destroyed to be threatening. Anderson says if the amount of atmospheric ozone drops by as little as 10 percent, enough ultra-violet radiation could probably seep through to be "extremely serious," and if it dropped by 50 percent, it would prove devastating...
...recalled Susan Mahaffey, 17. "There wasn't much blood, but most of the people were lying very still. Some were unconscious. A couple looked dead." Dozens of shoes, lost in the panicked scramble, were strewn along the block. A baby carriage lay overturned and empty. Blood began to seep along the concrete...
Astronomers have long been trying to study the center of the galaxy, using the feeble and sporadic X rays, gamma rays and other invisible electromagnetic energy that manages to seep through the celestial dust in the Milky Way. But the resulting computer-derived pictures have been too small and too blurry to provide details...