Word: siphon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are many possible reasons why Red China's bosses have chosen to broadcast the attacks of their critics: to siphon off the kind of pent-up popular frustration which led to the Hungarian explosion; to put the fear of the counterrevolution into the lower levels of their own bureaucracy; even, in the case of General Lung's anti-Russian blast, to make a point which the government agrees with but cannot officially accept. But underscoring them all is one fact, ominous to Communists everywhere: Mao noted that in Hungary "the party simply disappeared in a matter...
...dividing the college living quarters into self-sufficient units, makes things considerably simpler here. New Houses can be added without diluting the advantages of the old ones. The Program calls for three new Houses, one of them to be completed by 1959. This eighth House will be used to siphon off the overcrowding from the present Houses, but the two additional ones can be devoted primarily to new students...
...enough to torture people-the real satisfaction comes when they can be made to beg for it. By an intricate series of Machiavellian maneuvers, De Paris involves four cadets, who think the whole sinister business is an almost innocent practical joke, in a plot. The idea is to siphon a mort of whisky through an enema nozzle into a fifth cadet and deposit his senseless body on the quadrangle one dark night. Next morning, when the boy is found and expelled from the academy for drinking on the campus. Jocko's hands are clean because so many others...
Parking for Women. The new centers, like many of the mammoth suburban shopping areas that have sprung up in the last ten years, are designed to siphon shoppers from an entire region. Mondawmin, for example, is the most convenient retail center for 400,000 people within a 15-minute drive. With huge free parking lots laid out so that cars are never more than a few hundred feet from stores, the decentralized centers spare their customers the fender-bending frustration of wrestling cars through downtown traffic. With an eye out for women drivers, the developers of Seven Corners have even...
...Pass the Biscuits, Pappy," and wound up as governor. Now 66, O'Daniel has dusted off his old platform (in favor of the Ten Commandments and the golden rule). Nobody expects him to win, but liberals and conservatives alike wonder anxiously how many of their votes he might siphon...