Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continue to pour billions of dollars of aid into Communist countries when it has failed to make them cooperative or even happy ? Let's try beer...
Donations continued to pour in over the summer at the rate of about $750,000 each month, with little pressure from alumni or staff members. From now until June fund raisers plan to step up the entire campaign in order to meet the final deadline...
...technical end of things by a good deal. The door kept opening mysteriously, the telephone seemed to ring somewhere out in the quadrangle, brandy bottles turned out to be full of some bright crimson fluid. A bottle ran dry early in the second act, so that Kulukundis had to pour and drink from an empty glass. One would expect that in a production which began twenty-two minutes late, these things might have been set right...
...lavish distributions of gold among the local chieftains. (To this day, one former foreign consul in Albania argues that no mere circus performer ever had that much money to spend, remains convinced that Otto was acting as an agent of the Austro-Hungarian government.) Then, genuine telegrams began to pour in from Constantinople. "It was a shame," Otto used to tell his admirers. "I would have established a fine, wise government." But "to avoid unnecessary bloodshed'' (his own), Otto slipped quietly out of town...
...Federal Highway Administrator Bertram Tallamy chose Ellis Leroy Armstrong, 44, a nondrinking, nonsmoking, noncussing Mormon who heads Utah's Road Commission, to be his "executive vice president" and the man responsible to oversee actual construction. As commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, Armstrong not only must pour the concrete, but also smooth the waters as conciliator between the states and the Government on history's biggest public works project...