Word: drains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan last week, 15 pickets walked round & round before the building that houses the New Republic. Their banners bore an almost forgotten legend: I.W.W. Most New Yorkers, if they remembered the Industrial Workers of the World at all, thought that it had long ago gone down history's drain. As a labor union and a militant revolutionary movement, it was all but dead (TIME, April...
...soon leaves the great timberlands behind and enters a region where the last, sparse outposts of birch, spruce and cottonwood gradually fade into the boundless levels of the tundra. Here is the world which "knows but two seasons: winter and August"; here great rivers of North America and Asia drain away and congeal into the titanic ice-blocks of the Arctic Ocean; here (and not at the North Pole) the thermometer has touched its recorded lowest (93° below zero) and the milk of Siberia is sold at so much per piece...
...Decreased enrollment next year will drastically reduce total revenue, since the Faculty "depends more on tuition income than on endowments." College registration will roll back to 5100 next fall and 4700 next spring in an effort to reduce the drain on teaching facilities...
...Washington there was still sharp disagreement. The Administration had not yet denned the point at which the U.S. might have to use force or watch all its policies go down the drain. The military had. They argued that the U.S. should draw a definite line, to be defended with troops, guns and planes, and flatly warn the Soviet Union that it would cross that line at its peril. The risks were obvious. And what if the Soviet forces never stepped across the line but simply outflanked it, as in Czechoslovakia...
With the spring trip but three weeks off. Coach Maddux is harried by two momentous difficulties, the persistent cold weather which keeps his squad hottied up in the cage, and the drain of other sports on the team...