Word: discard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sindlinger's Workshop insists on buying a "piece" of each book it researches. Sindlinger has tested and bought in on half a dozen Broadway shows (Burlesque, Brigadoon, Lady Windermere's Fan) and has found at least three publishers willing to discard their taste and editorial judgment for the promise of a relatively sure thing. Workshop sometimes shares the advertising costs, sometimes helps finance the entire publication...
...their main purpose, the delegates generated more strife than peace. When little Uruguay tried to discard the old aggressive pride of nations, others pounced on her furiously. It was proposed that Spanish be made an official UNESCO language, which would complicate proceedings considerably. Uruguay tried to be peaceable, voted against the proposal. The other Spanish-speaking countries forced the conference to term "official" the languages of all UNESCO members...
After telling his listeners to discard the "native attitude" that the Foreign Service is a "romance of glamour and purple intrigue," Maddox pointed out that every officer has to do a large amount of hard, and frequently dull, routine work...
Most interesting localism modifying the game that Wild Bill Hickok died over is politely translated from the colloquial as "Upset the adjacent player's plans." Seven cards are distributed to the participants, and they pass around three, pick up another three, and discard two. One expert abandoned this delightful game when he found the others passing his money roll around...
...surplus equipment for $300,000, and appropriate $1,500,000 for permanent veterans housing. The majority of these improvements were passed by a slim 5-4 vote in the nine-man Council. Any decision by Cambridge voters either to reelect the five Councilmen favoring Plan E or to discard managerial government should be made with regard to the merits or demerits of the system and not because of the truculent howls of frustrated politicians...