Word: driblets
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...away a small fortune--$50 million--in a singular bid to end as much hurting as his money would allow. What most distinguishes White isn't the amount he has given away. Compared with Ted Turner's $1 billion pledge to the United Nations, White's largesse is a driblet. But most big givers don't start redistributing their loot until they have made a pile, and many generous magnates, like Turner and Bill Gates, remain very rich even after they have made headlines for their charity...
Wednesday's woman is really Wednesday's child. She is a kept waif, chug-a-lugging champagne from the bottle like Coke, sticking out her tongue as if hunting a refractory driblet of ice cream...
Ubiquity, a bourgeois, primordial driblet of reality...
...First Driblet. The South Koreans were in a complete and, apparently, hopeless rout. Suwon and its airfield were lost and Red flanking drives to the east were under way when the first driblet of U.S. ground troops-two battalions of the 24th Infantry Division-reached the zone of battle...
Slightly annoyed by slowdowns but unhampered until last month by such outright strikes as paralyzed U.S. auto reconversion, British manufacturers seemed at first to have got off to a fast start in the race for postwar world markets. Early this year they even managed to ship a driblet of cars into the U.S. itself. But, with reconversion nearly complete, the British were now waking up to the fact that their auto production system was not up to the American model...