Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Assassination of Omar Kincaid. New York, 1960. Harper, Alexander: Banking Policies in the United States of Mexico During the Arkins Years, Mexico City, 1950). If Sobel and other players who take up his parlor game carry his obsession a small step further to absurdity, they can be expected to flush out some of the books behind these titles, then publish scholarly articles that take issue with the books, then letters to the editors, pointing out the errors of the articles. Author Sobel, in the meantime, can take pride in his strange art. Like any good games player, he knows that...
...nation's rail passenger service; as it rolled through the next 20 months, it lost $239 million. Last year its long distance trains ran late 47% of the time, and drew angry complaints from riders about dirty cars, erratic heating systems and rest-room toilets that did not flush...
...acre farm outside Dublin, Cosgrave has little of the easy pub manner that Irish voters customarily favor. "Bloody good!" shouted one of his supporters as the returns came in last week. "Isn't that bloody good?" "Yes," replied Cosgrave crisply in his best Clifton Webb manner, a pink flush of pleasure on his face. "This is a good result...
...right of profession: just as, in most states, a priest does not have to breach the contract of confession, and a lawyer is protected in discussions with a client accused of a felony, so should a reporter be able to use the guarantee of confidentiality to flush out information which hastens to pursuit of justice...
...round trip between New York and Paris in the high season. The trip would take four hours, v. seven in a Boeing 747, but Pan Am planners feared that the time savings might not be worth the extra money to anyone but a few flush playboys and expense-account executives...