Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negligible and may in fact be difficult to identify. In significant magnitudes, however, Federal grants can make a university poorer rather than richer by building up unreimbursed costs. More than one Faculty at Harvard has found it necessary to limit its participation in desirable programs lest their indirect costs drain away its unrestricted income...
Death Strip. What mostly worried West Berlin officials was a drastic population drain that could transform the city-now one of Europe's leading cultural and industrial centers-into a ghost town. Forsaken by tourists and conventioneers, the Berlin Hilton already stands half empty. Since the week before the Wall went up, the number of citizens pulling out of West Berlin has quadrupled, from an average 75 daily to some 300. House-moving companies are booked for weeks, often months, in advance. To stay or not to stay has become the No. 1 topic at every Berlin dinner table...
...Churchill to Mickey Spillane. The old edition brushed off goof as "a ridiculous, stupid person." Now. in amplification, Dwight Eisenhower is quoted as complaining that someone "made a goof." Elizabeth Taylor broadens sick by speaking of "a room smelling rather of sick." Ethel Merman says, "Two shows a day drain a girl," and Willie Mays warns, "Hit too many homers and people start puffing...
...more than enough to answer all calls for rescue. But in the last five months so many nations have lined up for help that business at the pawnshop has already approached a record $2 billion, nearly twice the previous high of $1.1 billion for all of 1957. The biggest drain came in August, when Britain alone withdrew $1.5 billion in nine currencies to shore up the shaky pound...
Many passengers were indignant. Said one irate New Yorker: "How can a woman have a good time in Europe and still limit herself to only $100?" The more knowing grumbled that Congress had taken so long to act that the gold drain had virtually stopped anyway, and the cutback was no longer necessary...