Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land, diseases, insects, drought and pests." Holmes did not attempt to mechanize Etawah, but showed the Indian farmers how to use their primitive implements to better effect. He persuaded them to make compost of village waste, thus indirectly imposing sanitation where none had existed. He taught them how to drain their fields, how to inoculate livestock...
Some record sellers predicted that the price cutting will wash the small retailer down the drain, since he is unable to get the volume to compete with Goody's phenomenally low (8%) markup. The manufacturers themselves, drawing lessons from Goody's demonstration of what big volume and low markups can do, may trim their own prices...
...fact, demanding as many pints of blood as ever. The Red Cross has not had an easy time filling war's requirements for blood, and it will continue to have trouble unless its drives are well received. Moreover, many surgical operations have been postponed because of the wartime drain on local bloodbanks...
...Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, surgeons cut into her heart and enlarged the opening of its mitral valve. They anchored a small (½-in.) lucite ball on a steel suture just below the flaps of the valve. The plastic ball can move just enough to allow blood to drain downward into the ventricle. It moves up to act as a stopper in the mitral valve when the heart contracts to pump blood into the aorta...
...Garrulous Theron Lamar Caudle, the influence peddlers' buddy, went down the drain, but the President left unchanged the status of his boss...