Word: pours
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From 4 o'clock this afternoon, when "the avalanche," Leonard's own word, of study cards begins to pour in, until some time along about midnight, he, his assistants, and your study card will be closeted in the faculty room...
...United States has reached the opportunity for a great decision, which may never come again." Denying it had ever been "absolutist in pacifism," the New Republic added: "We were right to hesitate at first. . . . But now we do understand. ... If it is our war enough so that we must pour our material wealth into the scales on one side only, then it is our war to fight as well...
Said Lincoln to the Sixth Massachusetts, who had fought their way through Baltimore: "I don't believe there is any North. The Seventh Regiment is a myth. You are the only Northern realities." Next day reinforcements began to pour...
This being so, perhaps it would be better to use discretion and endeavor to pour some oil on the troubled waters or at least not to pour oil on hot places...
Said a Vichy captain to Correspondent Peters during Beirut's siege: "Nous nous battons pour le Roi de Prusse" (We are fighting for the King of Prussia...