Word: drained
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Unless Germany should suddenly throw in some effective air power, Italy's payoff in Albania, now that snow was falling, looked at best like a stalemate for some months, a lasting disgrace and a drain on the entire Italian military establishment. If, operating from their new strongholds in Crete, British naval power could gain mastery of the Adriatic, past minefields and submarines, the entire Italian expedition, including last week's reinforcements, might be annihilated, or forced to execute a sorry withdrawal like the British from Norway...
...hundreds of years medicine men believed that arthritis was caused by watery "humors" which settled in the joints. The ancient Romans burned the flesh over the afflicted joints, kept the ulcers open to drain off the humors. Other doctors worked on the principle of "no movement, no pain." They carved stone foot casts, not unlike modern plaster casts, into which patients thrust their aching feet. Paul placed great faith in "dragon's blood," but of course, he remarked, it "is difficult to procure...
Floodwaters crept over Dunster House last night as Malcolm McNair, Jr. '42 planted his feet on the drain of his shower and stood motionless for over sixty minutes...
Mounting waters poured out of the bathroom door, down the hall, and into adjoining rooms, soaking rugs and floating low furniture. Before McNair could be persuaded to lift his feet from the choked drain, three rooms had been inundated...
Last week, the Clacks went to Manhattan to appear on a radio program. Said Mrs. Clack: "I told him he mustn't ask me to drain abscesses on children. I couldn't stand seeing them suffer." Then one day the Clacks were called to treat a baby with an abscess "as big as a teacup." That case changed her mind, "because after I helped him the baby didn't suffer any more...