The tempo of her words increased, seemed to pour from her mouth like water from an open spigot.

These he held under the open spigot of the nearest keg until he had filled all three.

"It's essentially an open spigot," said Frederick H. Cohn, the chairman of the committee that admits lawyers to the program in Manhattan and the Bronx.

Such skepticism was echoed on the sidelines of the men's round-robin volleyball game and in the long line of women filling their plastic water jugs at an open spigot.

Now, some of those who opposed the open spigot for the guerrillas are saying the United States has practical, if not moral, reasons to become more deeply involved.

"If this were an open spigot, there would be room for evasion of the individual limits," he said.

Knock those spigots and seacocks wide open, crew.

Finally, draining money out of Nassau's treasury like an open spigot on a water truck is the county's unfathomable tax-assessment system, based on 1938 construction costs and 1964 land values.

And dozens of companies took advantage of the open spigot to go public.

It will never get Las Vegas the open spigot it wants to continue growing at the current rate.