Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black and his beastly pirate crew land on the island of Ooroo ("It sounds like the eyes of a couple of ghosts leaning against an R," shudders Black) and proceed to knock the 0 out of everything. They smash in doors and cupboards, rip roofs off houses, dismantle towers, drain pools and ponds. But all they find are opals and moonstones, not the valuable, 0-less gems they seek, such as sapphires or emeralds or rubies...
Glaucoma results from an increase in the pressure of the watery fluid inside the eyeball, which ''backs up" because it gets into the eye in normal amounts but cannot drain out fast enough through narrowed or diseased channels. It usually begins painlessly, and in such cases the first sign of its onset is the loss of side vision. Said Dr. Horsley: "The unsuspecting victim is sometimes almost completely blind before he realizes his visual loss. It is heartbreaking to have to tell these patients that they will never be able to regain the sight they have lost...
...breaking them, Director Vincente Minnelli has turned out half a dozen of the pleasantest comedies and musical comedies (An American in Paris, Father of the Bride) made in Hollywood since the '30s. And in Designing Woman, restricted still further by a plot that should have gone down the drain with bathtub gin, Director Minnelli has produced an uncommonly slick, prosperity-padded sequel to the emancipated-woman comedies of Depression times...
Will they be able to resist temptation? Will the honor of the corps be upheld? Will the vows of the spirit hold firm against the fevers of the flesh? Will Hollywood knowingly offend millions of Roman Catholic moviegoers and throw $2,500,000 down the drain...
...bonus is not the citizens' "dividend" promised when their party came to power 22 years ago. That scheme was to be part of a major overhaul of federal monetary policies, and is beyond the power of a provincial government. The payments now planned will help to drain off cash from an oil-enriched treasury that has already cut the province's debt to $90 million, financed large-scale grants to local schools and municipalities, and has built up a $347 million surplus. Some of the bonus money will also go to enrich the federal government, since tax authorities...