Word: seeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such an emotional pitch, the effect of an exhorting coach can only be harmful, Art feels. This reassuring coolness lasts until the winning team picks up the ball and carries it off the field. Then, and only then, can he ease up and let the inner tension seep from him. And when it is gone, as he has admitted at several post-game press conferences, "I'm numb...
Relief from pain was "miraculous"; within 20 minutes Mihlan was resting comfortably. As an added precaution, he was given intravenous fluids and penicillin. The aluminum foil, which looks like the inside wrapping of a cigarette package, acts as a seal for the body fluids that seep from burned surfaces. It also helps kill bacteria, speeds healing. Twelve days after being bandaged, Mihlan was out of bed. Last week, unscarred, but temporarily reddened, he left the hospital...
...their thought. But "the most important thing that can come out of the Institute," wrote then director Frank Aydelotte in 1943, "is not the absolute contribution of an Einstein, great as it may be, so much as the general flow of attitudes toward study and research which can seep down to the very roots of education. Our purpose is to be of the utmost possible service to general American scholarship...
...alcohol will seep into the evening's festivities, Hughes learned to his sorrow, since a Massachusetts law outlaws liquor as a contest reward...
...What once passed for friendly "amateur" sport can no longer escape the commercial aroma of its play-for-play brethren, whose breeding grounds must still exist upon the college and school level. Rather than set themselves up in some ivory academic tower, colleges have let the lure of lucre seep down among them, and have usually welcomed with open arms such money-making orgies as the fast-multiplying bowl games on New Year...