Word: cluttered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corner of the smaller room which they share with Natale's parents and his sister, who turns out to be a peeping tomboy. Some nights, just to get a little privacy, the honeymooners sneak out and make love in the side yard. In this human hutch-with its clutter of furniture, racket of children and queues for the toilet-tempers are often short. Before long, hard words pass, and Natale, in a rage, packs up and moves...
...sober grey suit, was climbing the steps of the limestone building that houses the physics department of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City. The janitor waved casually, called "Hi, Van." The U.S.'s foremost space scientist waved back and went on to his office and its clutter of models-rockets, satellites, nose cones and other esoteric objects. "I'm here now; you can start paying me," he grinned at his secretary, Agnes Costello, and disappeared into his inner office to prepare for his regular 10:30 lecture...
...Amid the clutter on his statehouse desk, Ohio's new Governor Michael V. (for Vincent) DiSalle keeps a framed motto attributed to the late Herbert Bayard Swope: i CANNOT GIVE YOU THE FORMULA FOR SUCCESS, BUT I CAN GIVE YOU THE FORMULA FOR FAILURE-TRY TO PLEASE EVERYBODY...
Judging by the clutter of posters on entry bulletin boards or by the gauntlet of fast-taking young politicos that Freshman must run after registration, one might conclude that participation in political clubs at Harvard is widespread and vigorous. In fact, however, dues-paying membership of all groups totals less than 18 per cent of the College, and even this figure ignores double-membership and the flock of joiners whose last "activity" may be plunking down $1.50 for the privilege of belonging. In the Liberal Union, for example, only 15 of 50 members "regularly attend business meetings," and such...
...have textiles sagged during "normal" times? One reason is that the industry is a clutter of 500 manufacturers, many of them small, inefficient and hampered by outdated machinery. Though the industry invested $4.4 billion in new plants and equipment during the past decade, an estimated 65% of its machinery is still obsolete. Unlike the automobile or steel industry, the textile industry has no real giants to set the pace in modernization. The largest textile company, Burlington Mills (fiscal 1958 sales: $651 million), has only 5% of the industry sales. All the manufacturers are fiercely independent, have never joined...