Word: draining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devoted mother of five children whose youngest was lost off New Guinea at the same time that her 31-year marriage was going down the drain, Mary Rockefeller has borne her tremendous personal tragedies with heroic silence and fortitude. She is a towering figure of strength and stability beside whom the Governor is a pygmy...
...through it Buck was initiate a host of new policies. of the most significant came only in round-about all can be traced back to the CEP-which amounted to the same thing. For example, the first concerns of the CEP possible disintegration of the arts curriculum because of drain on Harvard personnel. established a few survey course serving the core of a liberal arts tion; and out of the discussions subject emerged the idea of .12McGeorge Bundy...
...economic community in many ways as vast and promising as the U.S. itself. Further, the plan would stimulate economic growth throughout the free world, and it would shore up the U.S. international financial position, weakened by years of defense and foreign-aid spending overseas which have added to the drain on gold reserves...
...Rhythm. The process of destruction-or liberation, as Mondrian saw it-continued. For many years he filled some of his rectangles with primary color. But in time Mondrian came to feel that these rectangular planes were too dominating and would somehow have to be destroyed. His solution was to drain the color from the rectangle and pour it into the lines. The unhampered play between the verticals and horizontals then seemed to produce a kind of rhythm, a "dynamic equilibrium" that was like the pulse of life...
Indirect costs incurred in accepting federal contracts and grants have also presented a serious problem to the whole University. Hidden expenses of overhead, office help, and library facilities not covered by federal aid may well drain general University funds. Even the higher-ups in the Administration cannot agree on the extent of this problem. President Pusey and several Faculty members feel some agencies have realized the universities' plight and have granted a more realistic amount for indirect costs. The Administrative vice-President, who is responsible for federal aid to the University, has stated in sharp terms that the government...