Word: flushes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Characteristically, Mendès tried to flush out lurking marauders at the start. French Deputies hate to raise taxes but love to raise the salaries of government workers. Since the Assembly cannot increase the government's allocations, its favorite device for forcing the government to increase salaries is to send any budget item back to committee. Mendes sternly warned that he would tolerate no "untoward maneuvers." Unbelieving, the members of the Assembly went right ahead, prepared to send back to committee the estimate for the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs...
...sides. At the designated site, the caissons will be dropped and poked deep into the ocean bottom. Compressed-air jacks will inch the barge up its caissons, out of reach of waves and stormy seas. Then the caissons will be pile-driven into the mud, cut off and welded flush with the deck, then covered with flooring. Sand or concrete will be poured into the caissons for added weight and strength...
...replaced later in the summer by adults and older children). Half of them are polio victims, 16 have cerebral palsy, eight have muscular dystrophy, and the rest suffer from a variety of crippling ailments. Special care was taken in constructing new buildings: all but one are flush with the ground, doors are wider than normal to accommodate wheelchairs and spraddled crutches, there are railings along porches and in bathrooms. Showers, too, are adjustable for children in wheelchairs...
...hundred people all of whom hold the belief that what a visiting lecturer needs before he trips on to the platform is just enough martinis so that he can trip off the platform as well. And, clutching his explosive glass, he is soon contemptuously dismissing, in a flush of ignorance and fluency, the poetry of those androgynous literary ladies with three names who produce a kind of verbal ectoplasm to order as a waiter dishes up spaghetti-only to find that the fiercest of these, a wealthy huntress of small, seedy lions (such as himself) ... is his hostess...
...Give Them the Gun." An impetuous man, with tawny eyes, a constant wine flush on his cheeks and a towering reputation as a ladies' man, De Castries the soldier holds the high trust of his superiors (the late General de LaUre de Tassigny would never question a De Castries decision) and the admiration of his men, who often shout. "Here comes Cri-Cri [a diminutive for Christian]," when he runs up to lead a charge. "Allons " De Castries has been heard to shout back. "What the hell are you waiting for? Do you expect the enemy to send...