Word: pour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under New Dealism you shoot one cow, milk the other and then pour the milk down the sink...
...blame for blocking the Federal flood control program in Vermont. Franklin Roosevelt sniffed that Governor Aiken would not have to spend his $67,500 fighting fund: if he would rather have States' rights than Federal flood control, all right, the War Department would scratch Vermont off its list, pour its dollars and its dams into other States...
...Italian aid for Generalissimo Franco. The French General Staff has long viewed with misgivings the establishment of a Fascist power on France's southern frontier. There were signs that to "neutralize' Italian aid to Franco the French might unseal the Spanish frontier and allow military equipment to pour into Catalonia, as it poured in during the last big Franco offensive last March. Such an action would, of course, anger Dictator Mussolini (see p. 18), would be just the ingredient needed to produce a first-class European crisis...
...must deplore the recent attitude of the German press, which in one case has not scrupled to pour its vituperation against our most respected statesman, himself only recently Prime Minister of this country, and in few cases has shown much desire to understand our point of view...
Telegrams commending the drive continued to pour into the offices of the Committee in Adams House. Albert Einstein, a world-renowned mathematician and himself a German refugee, wired "Appreciate greatly your generous effort as aid in emergency and as humanitarian attitude." Frances Farmer, Broadway and Hollywood star, sent her best wishes, as did Helen Hayes, the first lady of the stage...