Word: spilling
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Fetch that gin son and I'll spill payoff...
...cushion the new line against pressure from the west, the Japanese seemed also to be building a defense belt beyond the railroad. There was a worse, though still remote possibility: from Loyang, the Japanese might try to push on westward through the famed Tungkwan mountain pass, spill into the loess plain of Shansi. Then even China's truck roads to Russia would be in peril...
...rains helped the winter-wheat crop. Oklahoma and Kansas farmers cheerfully scanned billowy green fields. Good growing weather until June would mean a bumper harvest to spill into the nearby empty elevators. Pastures and grazing lands also thrived; from New England to the Rockies, the grass was lush...
...room might collect under a table, leaving the rest of the room a vacuum. Or (a somewhat less unlikely possibility) a group of molecules might fall into an introverted pattern of collisions that would concentrate energy at a particular point. In that case, a bowl of soup might spill itself or a highball might spontaneously begin to boil...
...this talk added up to two strong implications: 1) the British were shirking, and 2) the U.S. High Command was foolhardy, at the expense of American lives. The Axis radio, delighted by the whole discussion, purred the inevitable question at U.S. listeners: "Is British blood too precious to spill on the sands of the Channel or the North Sea?" (With reverse reasoning, the Axis taunted Britain: "Whatever the initial contribution of the Yankees ... it will rest with the British to reinforce the failure of the enterprise or else to take the responsibility for its liquidation...