Word: drawerfuls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regard the press as an implacable enemy," President Johnson's onetime press secretary, George E. Reedy, told an audience of Princeton University students last week. A U.S. President "tends to view attacks upon himself as attacks upon the country," said Reedy. "L.B.J. could pull out a mental file drawer in which he had catalogued every major sin by anyone who had ever held a pencil...
...bomb, which exploded in the lesk drawer of U. S. Army Col. Donald Bletz, a fellow of the CFIA, at 1:02 a. m. yesterday morning, was apparently encased in a length of steel pipe, Capt. Leo Doyle of the State Fire Marshal's office, said yesterday...
Later, checking the officer on the third floor before leaving, he said, she noticed a grey metal box- similar to one that the girls had carried in- in a desk drawer in Bletz's office...
...requires no special plumbing or wiring and runs on standard household current. Garbage is loaded into a bag in the 17-in.-high waste drawer at the bottom of the 15-in.-wide appliance. Each time the Masher is filled, which in most households would be daily, a spray device automatically squirts a deodorizing and disinfecting liquid on the trash. Then the key is turned on and the start button pushed. Brute force does the job. The waste is compressed-by a ram that for an instant exerts a force of one ton-into a solid, bag-enclosed brick...
...becomes Compton's Jonah. They form a curious but substantial relationship, a fraternity based on fear and frustration. Joe takes Compton to a bowling alley, and Compton shows Joe the fashionable Ginger Man, passing Joe off as a top-drawer adman. Slowly, Compton's harmless, homogenized ideas and civilized manners give way before the barbaric force of Joe's fury. "Sometimes when I'm with Joe," Compton tells his wife, "I feel almost as if I'd performed a humanitarian...