Word: sapping
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...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...
French Communists felt the dialectical sap rising in their veins. They rioted. A try at wrecking the conservative newspaper Le Figaro brought out their old opponents, the cops. One camera caught cop and Commie in a balletlike tableau (see cut) which suggested a title-The Afternoon of a Gendarme. French ports were tense as Communists still tried to whip up the dockers to strike ships bearing U.S. aid to France. On the whole, however, Frenchmen last week were as lighthearted as men may be who live with no more in the backs of their minds than an unstable government...
...almost here, but the weather was sullen about it. Things warmed up a bit in the South, and at week's end the temperature got above freezing as far north as Boston. But New England's snow-buried sugar maples were not yet giving up their sap, and citizens of the Midwest were still recovering from blizzards and roaring winds...