Word: spilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordinary for this kind of reactor. It was not unexpected.' President Creitz meant to be equally low key, but in retrospect his words were unwittingly chilling. Said he: "The same occurrence happened two or three times in 1974 on Unit No. 1, but the tanks didn't spill." It was about this time, 11 a.m. on Thursday, that plant officials first disclosed that some of the fuel rods had been damaged on Wednesday, when the emergency cooling system had been briefly shut off, apparently because of an equipment failure that was quickly corrected. Company officials said less than...
...those who would shatter peace -who would callously spill blood-be aware that we three and all others who may join us will vigorously wage peace. It has been said...
...WORLD is in flames all around Jimmy Carter. Our new Chinese friends and their Soviet competitors are caught up in a proxy war in Indochina, which could spill over into superpower conflict; the collapse of the Shah and the shaky status of Mideast peace negotiations have exposed U.S. impotence in the region; and there are other political kettles ready to boil over in Pakistan, southern Africa, and the Horn. In all of this, the U.S. has been unprepared, uneasy or unable to influence events as it would like. The death of Ambassador Adolph Dubs in Kabul, plus the take-over...
Please don't hate me," she cried as she ran from the room. All she had done was accidentally spill a glass of water on the old, brown carpeting in the office. It was the spontaneous cry of a small, 14-year-old girl going through a crisis. She was a runaway...
...storage-room spill of a quart of flammable acetone caused an hour-long evacuation of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator building yesterday morning. Officials said no one was injured in the incident, which occurred on the fourth floor of the Oxford St. research laboratory...