Word: siphon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican I enjoyed your Essay [Oct. 22]. Party unity has always been the greatest pitfall of the Republican Party. The socialist and Communist parties siphon off the crackpots of the left wing, leaving the Democratic Party nearer the center. On the right, there is no haven for extremists. When the Republican Party seeks to accommodate all, it succeeds only in pulling itself away from the political center. We can never have a valid two-party system until Republicans realize that unity in the pursuit of victory is no virtue...
...seats." Two of the five threatened office-holders are CCA-endorsed Thomas Coates, a Negro, and Thomas H. D. Mahoney, the professor from M.I.T. Mahoney ran ninth last time, and, on the face of it, might be considered the most vulnerable. But remember one important feature of PR: candidates siphon their votes mainly, from relatively restricted areas or groups. The plain truth is that neither Mahoney or Coates draw their major support from the same elements that Maher must tap. But that doesn't mean they're completely out of trouble...
...probably studied in nearby Venice. His painting shows that he was conversant with that city's greats, and when he chose, he could paint as splendrously as they-more than one of his pictures has been attributed to Giorgione or Titian. It was more characteristic of him to siphon his Biblical subjects through what a Brescia critic once described as "the rustic and cantankerous dialect of his own district." The results were often warm and whimsical. Windows and archways open onto rocky landscapes typical of the region. His Saviour is not the emaciated, sublimely anguished figure of his colleagues...
...ground and sometimes damaged beyond use. No gasoline is allowed into the Turkish quarter of Nicosia. A few Turks make a habit of driving back and forth to gas stations in the Greek sector, where they fill up their cars, then return to the Turkish quarter and siphon the gas into communal storage tanks...
...strong Gen Ed Program requires a strong Gen Ed Committee, a committee with the money and bargaining power to draw good teachers into the program. The Doty Report proposed that the Committee be authorized to siphon 10 per cent of each department's teaching time into the program and that teachers of Gen Ed courses be granted more frequent sabbatical leaves. This is a sound and necessary proposal. Having rejected the bulk of the Report, however, the Faculty seems anxious to dispose of it too. Presumably, the proposal's critics will argue its unfairness. Should the Economics Department, they will...