Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came during World War II, when the basement undercroft where they lay was flooded during an air raid. Until 1949 they rotted quietly in this man-made bog. When the undercroft was finally drained, the effigies were a jumble of decomposing rubbish. Henry VII had lost his nose. A hole in Edward III's skull showed grey underplaster. The abbey custodians had half a mind to burn the whole mess...
...President's modified program was, of course, the only possible one. With military and civilian budgets suddenly looking more muscular than corpulent, the most optimistic budget slicer began to wonder how Eisenhower could cut more than three billions now. Even this cut, by no means filling in the tax hole, would drain needed funds from foreign aid, the metals stockpiling program, and public works...
...exclusive interviews abruptly ended. Said Truman to the newsmen: "I'm not going to comment on public affairs now or any time in the near future. I've said everything about anything that I'm going to say. You boys can consider this a dry hole for news...
Nevertheless, the "boys" and their readers could not quite relax. There was no telling when a two-headed, squirrel-headed whale of a news story would come spouting out of that dry hole...
...deal with a patient whose feelings (and stomach reactions) were his and his alone, the product of all his heredity and environment. To find out how the stomach would work in an emotional vacuum-and thus establish bench marks for surveying emotional effects-they needed a patient with a hole in his stomach and no emotions. But where to find...