Word: drawerfuls
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...professor shook his head, and opened up his middle drawer. "I'm sorry," he said, pulling out his black grade book. "I've made an effort to work things out here, really I have." He flipped through the book until he found the page he was looking for. "Here we are," he said. "I'm afraid my little attempt to loosen you up hasn't proven too successful. I really have no other choice: You will have to receive a 'C' for the course...
...Norwell, Mass, native draws a regular crowd of pro scouts to Crimson practices and his desk drawer is brimming with correspondence from agents and teams...
...There are thousands of trees and brain cells dying per year to produce great scholarship and it all gets confined to some dusty drawer," said Rosen of his reasons for starting the magazine. "We hope to resurrect them and lead them to a more dignified...
Sears talked to farmers in simple and earthy language that sometimes stretched reality. In 1902 the Seven Drawer Drop Head Minnesota Sewing Machine was described as "the highest of high grade in everything." Couches and sofa beds were the "greatest values the world has ever seen." Dr. Rowland's System Builder and Lung Restorer was described as the "greatest vegetable medicine of the age for the thousand ailments common to the masses." Some copy was thorough to a fault...
...Bush is not about to be nudged off the ticket. The Republicans, however, might have more to gain from having a woman on their ticket, since it is Ronald Reagan who is struggling to close the gender gap. Moreover, the Republicans might have an easier time picking a top-drawer female candidate. "We would be in a better a position than the Democrats," says Kansas Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 51, who heads the list of her party's female vice-presidential prospects, "because we have more qualified women...