Word: draining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro Comic Dick Gregory and High School Teacher Albert Raby, who organized the march. Said Raby: "We're going to see to it that it will be a long, hot summer for Daley. Every Negro who cannot march will be asked to turn on all his faucets and drain the water." That seemed an especially silly way to protest, and could lead not only to a long, hot summer for Chicago but a long, dry one as well...
Before the fight I had fervently hoped that no matter who won--even if my quarter on Liston in the fifth in the CRIMSON pool went down the drain--the fight would be freed of the taint of the Miami affair. What happened last was worse than anyone's most horrid dreams. Somehow, the whole thing seemed too blatantly fallacious to have been a fix unless Sonny, Casslus, and Blinky Palermo have been watching too many Grade D fight films on the late show...
...duck." Replying to complaints about his decision to send troops into the Dominican Republic, Johnson snapped: "I realize I am running the risk of being called a gunboat diplomat, but that is nothing compared to what I'd be called if the Dominican Republic went down the drain...
...Punta del Este's Cantegril Country Club on Uruguay's sunny coast, the central bankers of 19 hemisphere nations gathered to discuss Latin America's economic problems and to weigh President Johnson's program to stem the dollar drain. On the Riviera at Cannes, the Common Market Monetary Committee, including a select group known as the Club of Six (see box), met to pass judgment on the British pound and Europe's growing inflation. In Basel, both the Bank for International Settlements and a subgroup called the Basel Club met behind carefully guarded doors...
Overbearing Allies. Noman's peace drive obviously has the tacit blessing of Nasser, who is pained by the $500,000-a-day drain and the occupation of the Egyptian army in a bloody and endless war. In fact, everyone is fed up. The royalist tribes have had their villages bombed to rubble and lost an estimated 40,000 dead. The republican tribes resent their overbearing Egyptian allies, and are discouraged by lack of success in the field. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who backs the Imam, would be happy to see the Egyptians leave Yemen...