Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, crosses (plurality voting) were used for the referenda or special balloting. The result was confusion, misunderstanding, mistakes, and thousands of invalid and blank ballots which went into the waste basket, to say nothing of the limited enfranchisement of the citizen, or the frustration of his right to register a vote for 9 councillors and 6 school committeemen...
When freshmen answer the call of "milk and doughnuts" after January first, the man waiting with a basket of food and drink may look the same as he does now, but there will have been a change. The new milk and doughnut men will be controlled by a strong central agency...
...Twentieth Century-Fox's Production Chief Darryl Zanuck thinks it can, and will attempt to prove his point with the soon to be released How to Marry a Millionaire, a lightweight comedy starring Marilyn Monroe. In fact, Zanuck has placed $35 million worth of eggs in his CinemaScope basket by scheduling a total of 14 pictures for wide-screen production. Already made: a sequel to The Robe called Demetrius and the Gladiators, and such swashbucklers as Prince Valiant, Hell and High Water and King of the Khyber Rifles...
Sort the Trash. Mansure has even found treasure in the Government's trash baskets. GSA housekeepers, in the first six months of this year, swept up 9,000 tons of wastepaper and sold it for $104,343, compared to a Democratic take of $54,219 for a similar period last year. The reason: instead of wasting paper by heaving it all into one basket, GSA trashmen now sort the scrap into eight piles graded according to recovery value. Thus old income-tax records bring $60 a ton, engineering maps $90, and corrugated containers $20, while mixed scrap formerly brought...
...lifts her lips to his. Gently he squeezes the trigger and blows a hole in her belly (the dame had it coming to her). "Then she went down like soft rope," says Mike as the film ends, "and there was only one thing left to do. Order a basket...