Word: sapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is just one facet of The Plan--Plan Azev to be precise--that threatens to sap America's international influence. This KGB grand design includes infiltrating Western governments with moles--double agents--who do things like conveying classified documents through microdots on the back of chewing gum wrappers sent in packages to orphans in East Germany. No kidding...
...breaks, no how, no way. His father worked in a bank and got caught stealing pens. Research reveals that Rodney Dangerfield is the sap in his own family tree. The line has never been broken. Elevator operators eye him and always say the same thing: "Basement?" On a night out in a Chinese restaurant, he opens his fortune cookie and gets the check from the next table. The trauma reaches into the intimate parts of his life. He has become such a maladroit lover that he caught a peeping Tom booing him. His wife "cut me down to once...
...permitted, the church will pull away from Rome; but if Africanization is not .permitted, the churches here will be empty." The Pope paid tribute to the African experience: "Your church has been grafted on the great tree of the church, where, for 100 years, it has drawn its sap, which now permits it to give its fruits to the church and to become itself missionary to others. Your church will have to deepen its local African dimension, without ever forgetting its universal dimension. I know your fervent attachment to the Pope. I say also to you: Through him, remain united...
...feel the guy at the terminal next to me becoming existential too as we are engulfed by the black screen that has been saying "TRY LATER" for the past hour. Die. December 27: This is the day. The day that the reality of the project starts to sap the lifeblood out of your vacation. I see a friend in the city, a veteran of this madness who handed in half his project on notebook paper. He says, "I just could not stand in line waiting all the time, kid, it's a matter of integrity...