Word: dripping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rival Editor Cummings had given the Beaverbrook press a resounding thwack. "The Daily Express," he wrote in his News Chronicle column, "seems to have the British Empire on the brain ... It opposes Marshall aid and Western Union as policies inimical to the Empire [and] keeps up its dreary drip of criticism unfortified by any rational alternatives...
...cockpit of a big modern airliner is a nightmare of instruments, switches, knobs, push buttons and warning lights. They crowd for attention in front of the pilot and copilot. They encrust the walls, drip from the roof like stalactites and overflow into the cubbyhole where the flight engineer sits. On a Boeing Strato-liner, there are 598 gadgets to watch. The three-man crew must know what each one is, where it is, and how to use it instantly. In an emergency, a few seconds of fumbling may mean a crash...
...surgical patient can never hope to lie in a bed of roses, but it is becoming less & less a bed of pain. Without making head lines, or much of a splash, a steady drip of knowledge goes on eroding much of the hospital's horror...
...Then drip around to 14 Plympton Street tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock, and meet the people who run the College's only course in journalism, CRIMSON editors. Guzzle some beer or coke and make your opening bid to Cambridge's breakfast table daily...
...fondness for Arab boys, his rapturous admiration for statues of the male form, his habit of following strangers who attract him ("I go out a bit toward evening and shadow a couple of fellows who intrigue me"). Nothing, it seems, came to Gide so easily as tears. The Journals drip from crying jags brought on by Gide's reading, his music, visits to art shows ("visit to the Louvre . . . wept in front of the Rudes . . . in the theater the mere name of Agamemnon is enough. I weep torrents...