Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...together, and then agree to meet weekly for more extracurricular love and French lessons, a double irony is consummated. Her special pride was her fidelity; his was being a self-taught genius. The Wallachs drum a tattoo of laughs on The Tiger's hide, and just as expertly drain the comic pathos from The Typists, a tale of two office-worker mediocrities whose lives dim out like light bulbs...
...kind of consultant in the civil defense program), connoisseurs of this kind of proliferating work will probably prefer the one about a breed of carnivorous plants who are chomping up the world, or the one that postulates the disappearance of all the oceans like bath water going down the drain...
...while the schools are concerned about the drain on faculty time, they also recognize the value of practical experience...
...himself in a position to cash side bets on gaining pan-African esteem. But this week remains crucial. He and U Thant will have lost everything all over again unless they realize that the Thant plan can only be temporarily satisfactory. Having nearly washed Mr. Tshombe down the drain, they must now help see to it that the problem of federating the Congo finds an ingenious and lasting solution...
...Public Service Electric & Gas Co. Between lower costs and bigger sales, RCA's computer losses were cut almost in half-from about $34 million in 1961 to an estimated $17 million or so in 1962. After taxes, this presumably reduced the computer division's 1962 drain on RCA profits...