Word: siphoning
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...managers finally decided to start the series with what had been scheduled as the second step: the drop of a "baby" atom bomb (equivalent to 5,000 to 15,000 tons of TNT) from an airplane. Since the bomb would explode in midair, it would be less likely to siphon up particles from the ground and therefore would produce a less dangerous fallout. The clouds from nuclear explosions that do not suck up particles from the earth travel long distances (sometimes around the world) and descend in such minute particles that they are seldom dangerous...
...last spring, Arthur Dean, President Eisenhower's special envoy to South Korea, sat in Syngman Rhee's presidential mansion, discussing Korea's galloping inflation. Dean thought the solution was to let the hwan find its own level (i.e., free-market dollar value), then siphon away the excess hwan currency that was drowning the country. Said Syngman Rhee: "Nonsense. The best way to fight inflation is to say that the hwan is worth 180 to the dollar and then keep it there." At that time the hwan was worth less than that and fast losing ground...
...around in new Buicks and Studebakers. Moreover, President Syngman Rhee, anxious for international prestige, has splendiferous plans for an international airline, an ocean-going merchant marine, and several luxury hotels. In a nation which pays its ministers $170 a month and where the average suit costs $125, corruption may siphon off some of the aid funds...
Radcliffe's Bertram Hall was flooded yesterday as a foot of water from this week's snowfall seeped into the basement. Workmen were forced to drain the water through a hold chopped in the basement floor, and hoses were used to siphon the water on to the Quad...
...column to go to press, he has recited the polished sentences into a Dictaphone, and soon they will be teletyped into the offices of the Herald Tribune on 41 st Street in New York. From there, after an editor has read them with reverent care, the syndicate will siphon the column by airmail and telegraph into prominent papers in Bombay and Des Moines and Dallas and Copenhagen and Halifax. If a comma is misplaced or a paragraph mangled, the editor may hear from Mr. Lippmann. In a couple of hundred newspapers, anxious readers will find in Mr. Lippmann...