Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed, led by the auto industry. The carmakers, who have been keeping their fingers crossed about their rising sales, last week boosted production to 136,409 cars, the best week this year and the most cars produced since the week of Dec. 13, when the industry was in the flush of the new-model demand. Total auto output was 2,126 over the preceding week and 55,849 ahead of the comparable week...
...weekend, students began fashioning black felt armbands with "14-Mars" inscribed on them in chalk, and plans were supposedly laid for a mass surrender to the New Haven police and for a march on a local precinct station. Another student plot hoped to have the entire undergraduate body flush all the toilets at Yale simultaneously in hopes of flooding New Haven streets. However, the Deans probation decree appears to have silenced any such mass action
When Castro's seasick invaders fought past army patrols from a marshy beachhead to mountain hideouts two years ago, their extinction seemed certain. All that was needed from Batista's army, 21,000 strong and well armed, was the simple nerve required to go in and flush them out. The army tried terror instead of courage; it tortured suspects, shipped the dismembered bodies of students home to their mothers. Result: a flood of arms and recruits for Castro...
Well, he did have an extra ticket. He considered making a small paper airplane out of it and sailing it into the Charles. But what the hell--why not let a townie go to the game? A warm flush of pity momentarily overwhelmed him as he thought of the deed, but it was replaced by a keener flush of something he chose to call maganimity--the feeling that one never stands as straight as when one stoops to help a child...
...diuretic acetazolamide (trade name: Diamox), often given to heart patients to help flush the brine out of their systems, can so upset a congested liver as to cause hepatic coma-especially when it is given in combination with ammonium chloride...