Word: drain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drain. In Alhambra, Calif., two thieves listened to their car radio while companions looted a market, later tried to make a getaway, found they had run down the battery; the starter wouldn't turn over...
Last week one of the leading authorities on burns poured all these down the drain and reported that burns specialists now agree on much simpler methods. His recommendation: just wrap up the patient, feed him well and let him heal...
Kipling's Rustum Beg of Kolazai "lusted for a C.S.I." (Companion of the Star of India) so avidly that he "built a Gaol and Hospital-nearby built a City drain-till his faithful subjects all thought their ruler was insane." When Rustum Beg was awarded only a lowly C.I.E. (Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire), he got so mad "he disendowed the Gaol-stopped at once the City drain," installed his harem in the hospital...
...Down the Drain. There were further experiences of this kind, more run-ins with the "power-drunk sadists" of the NKVD. One day Gershgorn "sprang up in sudden fury and rushed at me, screaming 'Saboteur, wrecker, rascal! Take this-and this!' His huge fists were crashing into my face like a couple of pistons." At last Kravchenko decided that he had had all he could stand. When no one was watching, he ripped a portrait of Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water...
...Army is still mobilized to a point where its drain on manpower and supply, combined with the other shortages, seriously hampers reconstruction. In its supreme effort to get the job done, the Kremlin is keeping concessions to consumers at a minimum. Life in the postwar Ukraine is dreary, incredibly dreary. It will stay that way for a long time...