Word: extinguishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...veins is easy enough: the swollen and tortuous blood vessels stand out in bold relief on the victim's legs. Deciding on treatment is something else, and the choice is most likely to depend on the doctor's nationality. In U.S. hospitals, the preferred approach is to "extinguish" the offending veins by stripping them out in tedious operations that take up to twelve hours and leave the footsore surgeon himself a candidate for varicose veins. In Europe, doctors reach for hypodermics, hoping to harden the veins and cure the trouble quickly with simple injections...
Firemen pulled hoses across the Holyoke Center plaza, into the bank building and downstairs to extinguish the burning refuse. They brought the fire under control almost immediately...
...laud your Essay. At last somebody has defended war as the expedient it can sometimes be in solving international problems. Too many pacifists and bleeding hearts have vilified war in favor of negotiations, when in some cases water, not words, is needed to extinguish fire...
Although it is surrounded by water, Manhattan Island has always had water problems. In 1664 Peter Stuyvesant surrendered New York (then called Nieuw Amsterdam) to the British partly because of a shortage of potable water. In 1881 a drought forced New York firemen to learn how to extinguish blazes with dynamite instead of water. In 1949 the city declared a Dry Friday, when residents were asked to stay out of their bathtubs and showers and go unshaven to ease a water shortage. Last week, in the midst of the worst drought they have faced in this century, New Yorkers could...
...seemed to embarrass Hamlin, too. She slowed her performance distrinctly the first ten minutes and the began to drag a bit and so more and more. Tim again, aided by Bruce bluth's exaggerated but Willie, she would strike a but time and again the play bog down and extinguish...