Word: sap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's Federal Relief Administrator Hugh S. Johnson argued himself hoarse trying to convince the unionists that "security wages" would not sap private wages. He offered figures to prove that by working steadily for the Government at security wages they would make more than building tradesmen had averaged on sporadic private jobs for the past five years. He pleaded that the Government could not afford to pay any more. He begged, "Don't do it, boys!" Finally he turned to threats, ordered strikers to be back on their jobs this week or else be dropped from relief rolls...
...left an abusive diary lying around; he told guests they had obviously come just for the free meal; he took his vacations by himself; he called her extravagant and spent money on fishing tackle. Alfred Ross's countercharge: She had called him "a coward, pansy, bald-headed nincompoop, sap, thief, bum, crazy...
...sugar solution, which a patient needs to support his strength, to nourish or to cure him. A sterile container for such solutions, to be administered by venoclysis, is now a customary part of operating room equipment. If an operation is going to cause great loss of blood or dangerously sap a debilitated patient's vitality, a venoclysis needle is pushed into a big vein in his arm or leg, is connected by rubber tubing to the container of salt or sugar solution...
...days later, no Great Power having protested, sap of courage rose in the Schuschnigg Cabinet. For the first time since the War, they boldly revived Kaiser Franz Josef's habit of ordering on a given day "spring parades" of all his troops in every provincial capital of Imperial Austria...
...since last February, when his crag-climbing father slipped and fell to Death, has young King Leopold climbed an Alp. Last week, with the impatient winter sap of born Alpinists boiling in their veins, wavy-haired King Leopold and his svelte Swedish consort Astrid set out for their favorite Swiss mountaineering resort amid nationwide Belgian alarm...