Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drain from the Brain...
...frescoed walls, and its stucco floor was gaily decorated with dolphins and octopuses. Like other parts of Nestor's palace, the Queen's apartments had terra-cotta pipes to carry off the smoke of the heating system. A small room, presumably a bathroom, had an underground drain. There was no bathtub, but since a terra-cotta tub was found in another part of the palace, Queen Eurydice may have had one too. Or perhaps her slave girls bathed her by pouring water over her. Vessels designed for this bathing system (still common in eastern countries) were found...
...trouble squeezing through the doors of Surgeon Eames's clinic. Dr. Eames faced a hard decision. One school of surgeons holds that it is too dangerous to remove a big tumor intact because this may throw the patient into shock; another holds that it is more dangerous to drain the tumor first and then remove the husk, because fluid containing malignant cells may spill into the abdominal cavity. Surgeon Eames decided to run the risk of shock, try to get the tumor out unbroken and undrained...
...value. To Mother Russia went East Germany's largest factories, her atom scientists, aircraft designers and skilled laborers, goods worth $12 billion. But in 1950 the Reds decided that instead of taking out what little was left, they would let East German)-build up again and then drain off the profits. This experiment has paid off handsomely for Moscow, made East Germany the Kremlin's lustiest satellite. Last week East German production had increased to such a level that the government announced it will cut the work week from 48 hours to 45, which might also help pacify...
Dwelling at length on foreign policy issues, he accused the Eisenhower administration of "pouring down the drain" the good will which was created abroad by previous Democratic administrations...