Word: sapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Without an imposing military sector to sap investment capital and scientific and managerial talent, Japan is moving toward a position of global economic supremacy," declares the author. "Japan's exports are nearly double those of the Soviet Union . . . U.S. exports of $217 billion and net foreign assets of minus $120 billion yielded a total of $97 billion, just one-third that of Japan...
...buzzy song is a part of the sound of late summer, like those of katydids and whippoorwills. But in the Eastern half of the country at long intervals early in the summer, periodic cicadas emerge from the ground where, in their juvenile form, they have been feeding on the sap of tree roots. All cicadas in a particular region are presumed to be of the same origin and appear in synchrony in early summer. In Northern states and along the eastern edge of the Great Plains, they appear every 17 years; in the Southern and Mississippi valley states, it takes...
...that they are on the rebound from the Sandinista offensive. Fresh supplies of aid from the U.S. will improve morale and enable the contras to equip new recruits. The rebel leaders do not predict a military victory, at least any time soon. Their aim is to hold on and sap the shaky Nicaraguan economy by sabotaging power lines and blocking highways. "The contras are able to make a lot of noise and cause damage to the Sandinista regime," says Colonel Mark Richards, a U.S. intelligence analyst. "But they are highly unlikely to be the future rulers of Managua...
...three and a half hours that is not enough. Dalton's innovation, give its about fifteen minutes of chuckles, but for three-and-a-quarter they sap Hamlet of its lasting place in our, collective consciousness. Skip this production, read the original with your roommates, look for the upcoming video...
...early 1920s, D.H. Lawrence wrote, "I place my immortality in the dark sap of life, stream of eternal blood. And as for my mind and spirit-this book, for example, all my books-I toss them out like so much transient tree-blossom and foliaged leaves, on to the winds of time." A funny thing happened next. The winds of time caught these words and much of the novel in which they appear and blew them into hiding for roughly 50 years. Between the day he abandoned Mr. Noon in midsentence in 1922 and his death...