Word: sap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wild and indiscriminate. He joins a public campaign for "freedom of the air." Poor Clem; his case, and his career too, blows up when the leading lady puts the finger on the leading man as the secret party boss for radio who has been, playing Clem for a prize sap...
...During May'to October, floodwaters, backing up on the delta, cause the last 240 miles of the Mekong to flow backwards into Lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia...
...picked off the skids and put on his payroll, to fly East for a week. The idea, said Milgrim, was for Halliday to go sit under an elm at Webster College, the location for the musical he was assigned to script, and let some of the old collegiate sap rise...
...ground out in the seconds, degrees and miles of a B-36 flight, mean packing aboard survival kits for the Arctic, life rafts for the ocean, 100 Ibs. of food* to be cooked in two tiny electric ovens-and endless time for minor irritations of dreadnought flying to sap the toughest crewman. The crew's sections are pressurized like bug-bombs. To get from the nose compartment to the rear chamber a crewman has to lie full length on a little roller sled, pull himself hand over hand down an 85-ft. connecting tube...
...only a hint of trouble ahead. "There may be similar acts of aggression in other parts of the world," he said. ". . . The free nations face a worldwide threat. It must be met with a worldwide defense." The job of defense would press on the nation's shoulders and sap its high standard of living "for a number of years...