Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invasion of China would consume hordes of men and millions of dollars in an operation which . . . would be fruitless. In the battle's midst, the public would sicken of the drain and the campaign would grind to a farcical halt. . . . Using Chiang would be employing a discredited army and a has-been who is considered reactionary and dictatorial throughout the Far East. It would . . . burden this county with the worst sort of albatross...
...extra coronation day beer sales would be enough to pay all coronation costs and send a surplus to the Exchequer. The economy-minded coronation committee announced that all of the steel and 85% of the timber used in grandstands and decorations would be reusable, and no drain on Britain's 300,000-houses-a-year building program...
Dwight Eisenhower has been heard to refer to his oval, pastel-green White House office as "the maelstrom." Like other Presidents before him, he chafes at the number of visitors and routine chores (including some 200 signatures a day) that drain presidential time and energy away from the task of setting and steering the nation's course. He has succeeded in snipping away a little red tape (e.g., he shifted to the Chief of Naval Operations the chore of signing naval-officer assignment papers), but every now & then a presidential aide will hear him bark like a drill sergeant...
Radcliffe's Bertram Hall was flooded yesterday as a foot of water from this week's snowfall seeped into the basement. Workmen were forced to drain the water through a hold chopped in the basement floor, and hoses were used to siphon the water on to the Quad...
Sending these arms and giving extra money specified for use in Indo-China will help cut down the drain on the French economy. Each yearn France has spent over a billion dollars of her own money, forty-three percent of the military budget, and diverted half a billion in U.S. aid to fight this war. Once freed, much of this money could be used to build divisions for European defense...