Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ARGUMENT that tear gas is more humane than artillery is compelling but misleading. In Vietnam, it is used to flush out the enemy from his hiding places and then conventional fire mows him down...
...Buchwald's first play, Sheep on the Runway, is a cartoon allegory. Flush with military hardware but low on brainpower, a group of bumbling, do-good-ing, fast-talking Americans lead a small, neutral Himalayan nation in Asia into a deadly heap of trouble. The difficulty with themes like this is that a playgoer is not quite sure whether he is experiencing the shock or the drone of recognition. An audience should never know as much as or more about a play than the playwright does...
...Supply. To prosper in such a trade requires the proper sort of acquaintances, and Dice Dawson made them. The Fox & Hounds Inn, an expensive restaurant he operated until last October in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., attracted prominent representatives of the sports world as well as the flush, sedentary set. While Jerome Cavanagh was mayor of Detroit, Dice occasionally dined at the mayoral residence. All the while, he seemed impervious to the normal hazards of his line of work. Local authorities were no problem, explained one federal official. "A policeman would see the people around Dawson-sports celebrities, the mayor, millionaires...
...expelled from Ghana within two weeks. Few of the aliens could produce official papers, and fewer still took the warning seriously. They had heard the same threat before, but official identification had never been required in practice. When the Interior Ministry announced that police would actually begin to flush out illegal residents, it was clear that this time the government was serious. By then, few had time to apply for permits-or had the confidence that they would be granted. The result was panic...