Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something about Trappeto's poor. He won: the government allotted him some $50,000 to begin an irrigation dam in a nearby valley to provide work and water for the local poor. But soon he found himself in trouble with landowners who claimed his dam would drain their own farms...
...commuters protested McGinnis' $12 million slash in maintenance funds since 1953, McGinnis snapped: "I've given these politicians everything they asked for." In summer, when air conditioning broke down, McGinnis explained that the weather was "too hot." In winter, when diesel locomotives stalled because crews failed to drain condensation coils, he claimed that his engines were "freezing...
...meeting at which these proposals were first discussed, but probably not a matter for immediate action, was the problem of elementary schooling for faculty children. Many professors, dissatisfied with the crowded Cambridge schools, feel obligated to send their children to private schools from kindergarten on up, a severe financial drain on already-constricted budgets. A number of universities have met this problem by setting up experimental grade schools as part of their Schools of Education...
...Arabian American Oil Co. built to connect Saud's capital with the Persian Gulf are about the only constructive achievements that he can find to list to the regime's credit. All the rest of the oil wealth, a billion dollars or more, has gone down the drain, he says, in "vast private fortunes accumulated and invested safely beyond the borders . . . vast expenditures by princes and officials on the lighter side of life . . ." The Police State. As the profligacy of King Saud's household has increased, says Philby, his tyranny has tightened. Whenever his subjects, usually students...
...overnight, the girls smuggle the corpse to the school grounds, dump it in the slimy swimming pool. So far, things have merely been brutal. Now Clouzot lights the spirit lamps of the supernatural. When the corpse doesn't float to the surface of the water, the girls drain the pool. There is no dead man at the bottom. Next, a tailor delivers Paul's freshly cleaned and pressed suit to the school. It is the same one he was drowned in. A class photograph is taken; when the picture is developed, there is Paul's face peering...