Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blamed, however, for having failed to do something about inefficiency and oppression. For its workers in the Khuzistan fields, Anglo-Iranian has built model dispensaries, schools and recreation grounds, but it has made no effort to integrate itself in the life of the country. In 1951, swimming pools and flush toilets for the oil workers make a poor substitute for a long-term policy...
...Hangchow, as the Russian speed-up kings were sent off to the sunny Crimea. At West Lake, the Chinese Stakhanovites were lodged in villas that once belonged to wealthy merchants. "These houses," reported one Chinese newspaper, "have stained-glass windows, beds with springs, and silk quilts, tiled bathrooms with flush toilets, facilities for chess and pingpong, flower-bedecked gardens, radios and books. There is always, too, a Thermos bottle on the table filled with boiled water. Such things were never before within reach of workers in China...
...defense designed to make his opponent look like a floundering club fighter. For the first two minutes of Round One Gavilan stuck right to the script, bouncing in to pepper Bratton from his low crouch, bouncing back away again to duck Bratton's right. Then he caught Bratton flush in the face with a jolting right cross, followed it up with a blinding series of rights, lefts and underswung bolo punches that brought the Garden crowd howling to its feet with cries of "Arriba! Arriba...
...federal court in Manhattan. He heard four firemen who had served as reception ists in his office give a different total: Weber visited Moran 111 times. Moran did not take the stand; his lawyer introduced no witnesses in his defense. The jury's inevitable verdict: guilty. A flush crept up Moran's neck, but he said nothing when the judge gave him the maximum penalty for perjury: five years and a fine...
Steeplechasing was developed by disappointed foxhunters who did just that. They chased steeples. If they failed to flush a fox, the rough & ready riders would set a course on a distant church spire, then set off hell-for-leather over any obstacle that got in their way. Last week's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree was as rough & tumble as any oldtimer could wish. Only three of the starting field of 36 even finished the race...