Word: discardable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suggest that the Reverend Father either become a politician and discard the collar, where I think he will be in his element, or return to the fold and follow the Great Man of Galilee...
...Reporters in the Senate Press Gallery knew it fortnight ago when they saw the baleful glare Miner Lewis cast down on West Virginia's snaggle-toothed Rush Holt as that daring young man filibustered the substitute Guffey Coal Control Bill and possibly his own public career into the discard. Newshawks at the White House knew it when John Lewis stomped grimly into the President's office next day. And correspondents in the press box at the Democratic Convention last week knew it when John Lewis, hospitably received by the Resolutions Committee, was presumably permitted...
Republican Convention this week, hoped for quick adjournment next week by the simple process of putting on ice all legislation which has not yet passed both Houses. Major measures slated for discard under this plan were the Wagner Housing bill, substitute Guffey Coal bill, Copeland Ship Subsidy and Pure Food & Drug bills. By the same principle, at week's end, only remaining "musts" were taxes and Relief. Easy agreement was expected on the Relief (First Deficiency) appropriation bill, which had just gone to conference. Only real threat to adjournment plans was the possibility of a prolonged conference wrangle over...
...what was his final public appearance, his investiture as Edinburgh University's Lord Rector. Before Scotland's rowdiest undergraduates, who interrupted his speech by pelting him with paper bags filled with flour, with colored streamers, beans and peppermints, he imperturbably declared: "Unless the people of Europe discard this narrow nationalism that is miscalled patriotism there will be a return to the Dark Ages. The lust for expansion is not quite dead, but the glory of conquest is departing. Its gains are Dead Sea fruit, its legacy bitter memories alone...
...truck. "Millions of women make themselves miserable because their husbands never make love to them," she has said. "These suffering sisters could save themselves nearly all their woe if they would just throw their rosy dreams of how a husband should treat a wife into the discard. . . . A man marries to end romance...