Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Engineer Riddick wastes little time on Henry's theory that water rises from great depths underground and distributes itself in veins (it actually comes from rain, streams, etc.), but he hopes that people will not put too much faith in shallow, dowser-found wells. Heavy pumping can drain them dry when most needed, he warns, and many are contaminated...
...Malik had started something, and Washington was generally convinced he had done so because Moscow-to say nothing of China -is being hurt by the way the war in Korea is going; by its strain on Russian materiel and rear-area manpower, it has become a heavy drain on Russian prestige-and perhaps is a hindrance to other ventures. Yet obviously Moscow and Peking still hope to stop the fighting on their own terms. The terms as last stated by Peking: 1) withdrawal of all "foreign" troops from Korea, which evidently would not include the North Korean Communists, would...
...subsistence living. Most peasants are sharecroppers, chronically in debt to moneylenders. Yet, potentially, Syria is a rich land, well able to support twice her present population. Proper irrigation would double her arable land. U.N. experts have drawn up plans for a pilot irrigation project: with $15 million Syria could drain the vast Ghab marshes, divert the surplus water for irrigation and put 148,000 acres to the plow...
...Effort. In Tonawanda, N.Y., a pheasant smashed through a kitchen window in full flight, struck the faucet in the sink and turned on the water, plugged the drain with its body, began to drown, was saved by two boys who happened...
...foot kiosk is giving Square policemen a safe haven from which to castigate passing motorists. Opened yesterday, the booth features all around vision, a specially designed observation chair, a built-in loudspeaker system, and a series of aluminum drain-pipes designed to keep occupants dry and alert in any weather...