Word: draining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "a military presence has more than once proved an obstacle," Powell said that in the long run the quelling of Communist expansionism in Asia and Africa was not Britain's business. Besides, maintenance of military bases and forces from Aden to Hong Kong was too heavy a drain on British resources...
...water goes down the drain clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere, counterclockwise in the Northern [Sept. 24]. We are on the Equator. If anyone wants to prove there is no vortex here, I invite him to visit our bathroom...
Though a moral outrage and a physical eyesore, it has stanched the drain of manpower that until 1961 was the worst economic problem in Walter Ulbricht's grim satellite. By thus stabilizing the labor force and preventing much-needed technicians from escaping to the West, the Wall has contributed substantially to a rise in East German production...
...Another sore point for Merrick last week: he had just closed in Boston his second production of the season, Hot September. Down the drain: an estimated...
...with a clockwise swirl, then letting it sit for 24 hours in still air. After that, he carefully pulled the plug and filmed the results. Using Shapiro's technique, five persistent investigators at the University of Sydney have now duplicated his experiment, demonstrating that Down Under water will drain clockwise. To be sure they report in the magazine Nature, they cannot conclusively prove that it was the earth, not the swirl. But, with proper scientific caution, they add: "We have acquired confidence in the Hypothesis." Shapiro is unsurprised. He sees a certain "esthetic symmetry" in the results, points...