Word: draining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...native Greece and confined by the Greek government to a small Aegean island. The story evolves around his attempt to get back in the money by relieving an exiled king Noel Coward) of his million-dollar crown. Revolving ever more tediously, it goes down the drain in a clutter of words-Package is perhaps the year's talkiest talkie Coward: "It's amazing how a girl so dumb that if you say hello she's stuck for an answer can reel off a three-hour lecture on why wild mink is better." Brynner, contemplating a statue...
...accurately." ¶ Coagulation tests at one laboratory were conducted on blood samples collected in special tubes supplied to doctors by the lab; the tubes contained oxalate, a chemical agent which prevents coagulation. ¶ For the sake of speed, some labs resorted to "sink tests," simply poured samples down a drain and blandly reported "negative" results to the doctors who had requested analysis...
Americans spend more than $148 million a year on laxatives, and most of it is money down the drain. In Today's Health, an American Medical Association publication, Dr. Charles W. Hock estimates that 100 million Americans are laxative addicts, worry unnecessarily about "regularity." Says Dr. Hock: "Oldfashioned habits, half-truths and incorrect beliefs, and today's advertising have brainwashed the American public into accepting the idea that a daily bowel movement is a necessity for anyone. Your doctor knows nothing could be further from the truth." Each person's elimination needs vary, and regularity of bowel...
Across the U.S., home-repair clubs retrieved a Pasadena woman's emerald ring that had been inadvertently flushed down the drain, exterminated night-chirping crickets that kept a Long Island insurance agent awake, sent a geologist to a Pacific homesite to estimate the danger of rockslides for a nervous homebuyer...
Australia, which gave the world the benefits of the Hula Hoop, last week was exporting a new craze-the wobble board. Made of Masonite. the 2 ft. by 3 ft. board, when wobbled, gives off a gloop-gloop sound, like water going down the drain. With it youngsters can keep the beat to a wacky lament of a dying rancher called Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport.* Australian parents are wobbling under the board's gloop. The craze has spread to Great Britain, where already 100,000 records have brought the resonant beat of the wobble board. Last week there...