Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...escaping from the side of the mountain. They reported the phenomenon to the resort's general manager, Sherman Adams, 69, onetime assistant to President Dwight Eisenhower and an old hand at dealing with volcanic pressures. Adams investigated and found a hibernating bear in a cave. "I'll flush him out in the spring," said Sherm...
...land animals. In the years since, a dozen coelacanths have been found, though Smith never realized his dream of studying one alive. His suicide did not surprise his wife. "He always thought," she explained, "that the best time to die was when a man was in the flush of his manhood, before he became a nuisance...
...meticulous diagrams, the one-volume encyclopedia bravely tackles the explanation of such formidable devices as nuclear reactors, semiconductors, lasers and Polaroid cameras. It also considers the simple household devices and commonplace mechanics of contemporary life that are probably almost as puzzling to many readers: from flush toilets to door locks, from zippers to kitchen matches. The prose is straightforward and clear-which is all the more remarkable since it is an American adaptation of a British translation of the original German...
...GREAT BRAIN, by John D. Fitzgerald, illustrated by Mercer Mayer (Dial; $3.95). In Mormon Utah in 1896, Tom ("The Great Brain") is the craftiest kid around. Whether figuring a way to make money when his father gets the first flush toilet in town or teaching a one-legged boy how not to be "useless," Tom is very funny; the illustrations are excellent...
Britain's endemic deficits are usually largest in times of expansion, when Britons, fully employed and flush with cash, step up their purchases of goods from abroad. This time, however, Britain is in the trough of a government-imposed slowdown now 18 months old, a belt-tightening period of austerity imposed by Wilson's government after another sterling crisis...