Word: consignment
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...boys' high school. There are seven urinals. A Negro boy begins the play by using one of them; near the play's end, a white boy's bloodied head lies in one of them. In between, Jones makes it abundantly clear that he would gladly consign every white man's bloodied head to that identical place...
...maintain. To cut down this paper proliferation, a new kind of specialist - the corporate archivist-has turned up. Largest of these archivists is Manhattan's Leahy Archives, which maintains five storage centers throughout the U.S. and serves 400 blue-chip clients who gladly pay to have Leahy consign their unneeded records to the fire...
...Augustine, for one, consigned them to the eternal flames of hell, though the thought distressed him. "I am, believe me, beset by no small difficulties," he wrote, "and I am quite at a loss what to answer. Though I cannot define the nature of their damnation, yet I do not dare to say that it would have been better for them not to exist than to exist as they now are." Martin Luther agreed with Augustine. John Calvin sidestepped the issue by stressing predestination; if an infant was elected for salvation, Calvin held, lack of baptism could not keep...
...Consign atomic material to a U.N. pool for peaceful uses...
...Eisenhower proposed that out of such a discussion should come not only disarmament but immediate steps to advance the welfare of humanity by the constructive use of atomic power. He suggested the creation within the U.N. of an "International Atomic Energy Administration" to which nations possessing atomic material would consign increasing amounts of such material for the establishment as soon as possible of world power stations to make electricity, to fertilize the desert, and be put to all the other uses which we now know are possible with atomic energy...