Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bombing Syria in retaliation for the shooting of seven Israeli soldiers (TIME, May 14). Eban's faint failed to influence the Council: while he was out, it adopted the measure 10-0, with Russia abstaining. The resolution ordered Israel to 1) suspend work on its project to drain Hula swamp in the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria, which had caused the flare-up, 2) return Arabs whom it had deported from the area to make room for Jewish settlers. The sponsors of the resolution (U.S., Britain, France and Turkey) made it clear that they only wanted to postpone...
These problems are grave. Three million North Korean refugees have crossed, the 38th parallel and are a severe drain on the South Korean economy. Agricultural production is one-half of normal. No coal mines are in operation. Tungsten production (once a major source of revenue) has decreased to almost nothing. Some textile mills are humming, but their entire production goes to ROK troops. Inflation has raised the price of consumer goods to ten times last year's price...
...present it costs just as much by the hour to tutor the unresponsive students, as the responsive, and the drain on the tutor's energy is greater in one case than in the other. Since these are times when every expense must justify itself, common sense would suggest that tutoring should be in large measure reserved for those students who can really profit...
...regime had dissipated some $1.2 billion in foreign exchange that Argentina had piled up during World War II. Some of it went to buy the British-owned railways and the U.S.-owned telephone system and to build up a creditable merchant marine. But millions went down the drain in a reckless buying spree to round up foreign equipment for the President's grandiose five-year industrialization plan. On top of that, IAPI, the state trading agency, demanded such extortionate prices for Argentine products that the country lost a large part of its foreign market. Grafting and fumbling bureaucrats came...
Jacques Wolfe, 55, composer of such famed songs as Shortnin' Bread, Glory Road, and Gwine to Hebb'n, is a man with strong feelings about "real American opera." He is convinced that it won't develop until a lot of traditional "operatic hogwash" goes down the drain. His prediction: American opera will settle in a style "somewhere between Porgy and Bess and South Pacific. Let's face it, the popular song is the American idiom." Last week Rumanian-born Composer Wolfe was illustrating his point in a theater off Broadway with a little production called Mississippi...