Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot market his personality, the scholar can devote himself to "the cult of tidying up," answering phone calls in the office and writing the endless letters of recommendation which, Hughes confided, "represent a serious drain on one's stock of adjectives...
...marriage of science and socialism, in Wilson's vision, will ensure accelerated technological progress that can make Britain "the pilot plant of the world." A socialist government will radically step up the training of more scientists, ensure that they are creatively employed, and staunch the "brain drain" to the U.S. by offering them the prestige and prospects for which many of the country's ablest men now cross the Atlantic. With heavy state support for their work and more "purposive use of research," he prophesied, British scientists will yield new products, new laboratories, new industries, new sources...
...tour de style almost as startling as Breathless but more subtly accomplished, more purely felt. It is also a lyric poem in which the camera assiduously adores a beautiful woman. It is finally the tragic allegory of a soul whose pilgrimage to grace goes spiraling ecstatically down the drain...
...daily, 14,000 military advisers) is being won. On that basis, the military believes that any attempt to overthrow the Diem government, no matter how obnoxious it might seem, would only send more U.S. blood (over 100 Americans have lost their lives in the war) and money down the drain. Thus the Pentagon's position has been: fight against the Communists, not against the Diem regime...
While Ec. 1, Fine Arts 13 and German 75 drain off most of the morning throng, E.H. Erikson explores and interprets the human life cycle (Soc. Sci. 139), a subject on which he is a world authority. Nearly all of the writings of Chaucer are arrayed as food for thought in lunchtime English 115, and similarly important Greek literature is studied in Greek 112. Applied Math. 206, "Applied Discrete Mathematics," is a course for which "no specific preparation is suggested, but it is important that the student have a good mathematical background"; clearly, without such a background, he might...