Word: faucets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rippled in retreat like scattering minnows. Fifty-eight feet below, in the control room of the submarine, men stood their watches in the eerie green glow of instrument lights. The prison silence was broken only by the whir of a generator, the purr of a hydraulic pump, the leaky-faucet sound of water trickling down the packing gland of the periscope barrel. The sub broke water, the bridge hatch swung open, the skipper and his lookouts scrambled topside. There they began the countdown required before launching a 1,000-mile Regulus-type missile. The sub rocked quietly, like a metronome...
Ignoring the raging cold war over Syria, hard-driving Premier Adnan Menderes of the ruling Democrats campaigned to boost his 441-82 majority on a slogan of "A School, a Road, a Faucet, and a Mosque for Every Village." Menderes obviously had a fat war chest. Having barred all opposition speeches from the air, the wily little Premier ordered 100,000 dry-cell batteries flown in from Europe and passed out free to rural villages so that he could be sure farmers would receive his election harangues loud and clear on their battery-driven sets. Pointing to the new factories...
With the arrival of TIME and the repairman article came a broken faucet in the bathroom and an odd noise in the transmission of the car. The TV set (last week's trouble: condenser) now needs a new picture tube. At times like this I wonder if Grandma's day wasn't better. At least the only thing that broke down then was Grandma...
...poor little rich girl." Sandra reached her conclusion after a summer vacation hiking around England, Scotland and Wales on a tight budget with a rucksack on her back, stopping at 70?-a-night youth hostels that "had just cold water and a wooden tub, and some had just one faucet, so that we had to wait outside in the rain for our turn to get washed." Gushed Sandra: "It was great...
Pressure at the Faucet...