Word: binning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...worked in the mailroom, I've helped take classified ads, I've rolled a trash bin or two across the press room." That job history was recounted last week in the offices of the Washington Post, not by a trainee but by Katharine Graham, 58, board chairman of the Washington Post...
...onetime newspaper boy who studied paleontology at the University of California at Berkeley, Phillips accumulated a fortune estimated at $120 million. By his own account, his rise began when he visited Oman in 1952 on an archaeological expedition. There, said Phillips, he met and became friends with Sultan Said bin Taimur, who informed him, "By the will of God we shall have oil, for I am grant ing you the oil concession for Dhofar" -an area the size of Ohio. Phillips went on to become one of the largest individual holders of Middle Eastern oil concessions...
Women are scarce in the Zone in the night time. Two girls perch on a concrete trash bin near me in Liberty Square. A lanky black man in a floppy tweed coat ambles up to them, cocks his head and murmurs, "Ain't you kinda young to be downtown?" I don't catch their reply, but he looks satisfied and saunters on. The two friends on the cylinder look at each other and one says "Girl, you know...
...houses that shudder at North Dakota blizzards but withstand them. As fondly as an oldtimer, Woiwode, 33, compares the merits of long-forgotten tractor brands (the Hart Parr, Waterloo Boy, Rumley Oil Pull) and stocks a winter larder as it was in the days before home freezers: "The potato bin was full. There were parsnips, kohlrabi, turnips and rutabagas, all dipped in paraffin to preserve them, in other bins, and carrots buried under sand...
...Lower U.S. crop forecasts. According to early estimates, the harvest of '75 was to be the bin-buster of all time, considerably exceeding even the record 1973 crop. Owing to a corn-damaging drought in Iowa and some flooding in Minnesota, Department of Agriculture experts last week revised their predictions slightly downward. The wheat harvest is now expected to be 2% less, at 2.14 billion bu.; and corn will come in 3% lower at 5.85 billion...