Word: drain
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...Crimson would not quit. Winters and Colligan proceeded to take over the game, as Harvard shifted into a quick-strike offense to offset Yale's attempts to drain the clock...
Stock prices in general, though, could falter again if final damage estimates climb higher. The demand for capital for building projects could push long-term interest rates higher, drain cash out of the stock market and divert large amounts of money from other important enterprises...
What had been a bustling anchorage for container ships tended by towering cranes on rails turned in a moment into a deflated souffle. Much of the ground fell by a meter, judging by one grating that hung skewered atop a drain pipe high above the sunken surface. Worst of all, the groundslip destroyed the thick concrete perimeter wall, which rolled 45 and burst open a gap into the freight yards. Dozens of tractor-trailer trucks and shipping containers slid into the sea-washed breach. Behind the quay wall, strains tore apart the rails carrying dozens of four-legged cranes, behemoths...
These are the antagonists in the love match that Brookner sets up. George watches unblinkingly as his standards go down the drain. He also looks without flinching at the object of his fixation. She has ``an unusual gift: she brought everyone to the brink of bad behaviour.'' An honest man and proud of it, he is appalled to hear himself telling her petty lies, mostly in an effort to keep her greed at bay. Meanwhile, she is a determined missionary as she rattles on about getting in touch with ``the essential self.'' Confronted with one of his respectable female friends...
...second) one they gave me for the $80 I paid for it. But they haven't returned my calls or my money. Apparently, TPC's monopoly on computer sales promotes lackadaisical customer service . I have found that , to get any action, I have had to apply constant pressure--a drain of time and energy during my year at Harvard. Steven G. Alter Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History