Word: filtering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole (example: a Dutch shipbuilder would probably qualify for aid, a French girdle maker would not), and that labor unions in his plants are not Communist-dominated. Above all, ECA insists, European employers must be willing to adopt one principle of U.S.-style capitalism: increased profits must "filter down to the worker" in better pay or lower prices...
When the allies reached Hwachon and Inje, across the parallel on the east-central front, they cut off an estimated 60,000 Chinese from escape by road. Most of them would probably filter out along tortuous mountain trails, but could take almost no equipment with them. The enemy had already abandoned huge caches of arms and other supplies. On the Imjin River, a U.N. unit came across a Chinese dump containing 200 machine guns and several hundred tons of ammunition, some of it previously captured from U.S. forces...
Clad in white cotton coveralls, and wearing masks to filter out contaminated dust, the decontamination crew went to work. The patrolman moved into a company dormitory, and for the next six days his house got the kind of spring cleaning that many a homeowner wishes he could afford. Inside & out, everything (including the unhappy patrolman) was swabbed down with soap & water. Later, all the cleaning gear was carefully collected, carted off and tossed on to a restricted disposal dump...
...work of both of these sub-committees will filter through the C.E.P. before it goes up to the Faculty as a whole again...
Volunteer spotters could do a great deal to forestall such an attack. Their telephoned reports, plotted on boards at "filter stations," would show with little delay where the invaders were heading...