Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Down the Drain. From that moment on, Laos was on the way down the Communist drain. And from that moment the military threat to South Viet Nam and Thailand was implicit...
...turned out, the Tory government got more devaluation than it bargained for. Since last October, the foreign exchange fund has been forced to spend $516 million of its U.S. reserves not to press the dollar down farther, but to prop it up at 95? U.S. Last month the drain on its reserves was $115 million. Last fortnight heavy selling by foreign exchange speculators betting that the Canadian dollar would slump still lower suddenly raised serious doubt that the government could hold the line without exhausting the exchange fund altogether-and confronted it with a tricky political choice. Rather than...
Originated in 1960, dropped in February 1961, and reinstituted during the Berlin buildup last fall, the travel cutoff was touted as a way to reduce the U.S. gold drain. It succeeded more notably in reducing G.I. morale. Servicemen in Europe were delighted by the announcement-and by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's estimate that 6,000 wives and children would be traveling to Europe monthly...
...head while she was standing near a power mower. X rays showed that a piece of metal, more than an inch long, had penetrated the skull and a big abscess had formed around it. Surgeons had to open the child's skull to remove the metal and drain the abscess. And it took a battery of antibiotics and serums to pull the little girl through a severe infection...
...trouble is that most syndets are made of petroleum derivatives that are all but indestructible. Instead of breaking down in the soil and becoming food for bacteria as does soap - a nonsynthetic detergent made of animal and vegetable fats - the syndet remains active long after it goes down the drain, bubbling on and on through rivers and lakes and often seeping through the earth from septic tanks to well water (where its foamy presence may be a valuable warning that sewage is seeping in too). European waterways also foam with detergent suds, and German bargemen on the Neckar have complained...