Word: drains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centuries B.C. when Greek influence on Thracian art was strongest. One golden rhyton is decorated with reliefs of Hera, Artemis and Apollo around the rim and a billy goat at the base--the wine gushes from a spout in the goat's chest so one has to drain it all down at once...
...attract important artists, they could gather around them young Irish artists and establish centers of creativity." Touring Ireland, TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer found little indication as yet of any such cultural renaissance. But Haughey's notion of a permanent tax holiday for artists has at least stopped the drain of home-grown talent...
...Such a drain in personnel, Letteri says, has resulted in larger areas for beat patrolmen to cover, and the decreased effectiveness of regular patrols. The difference that the remaining patrolmen must make up, he argues, is worth more than 5 per cent...
...Cambridge yesterday to promote her new book, "American Journal: The Events of 1976," Drew said she writes in journal form not in an attempt to go back and drain the campaign of its excitement, but to put in writing "how it looked, how it felt...
Residents of arid Littlerock, Calif, (pop. 1,500), a farm community northeast of Los Angeles, have a choice of potential disasters. Would they rather risk being drowned, or drying up and blowing away? State officials want to drain the 521 million-gal, reservoir behind the nearby Littlerock Dam, whose water irrigates the peach and pear groves and melon fields that give the town what little prosperity it has. But the 53-year-old dam sits virtually atop the San Andreas Fault. Although the structure has survived severe tremors in the past, seismologists say it is located where the next...