Word: drawerfuls
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...character in this fine novel: I seen some pretty awful things. I done some pretty awful things. I really can't talk about it. They come home to find that they aren't heroes at all--that America has already pushed them into the back corner of a drawer of the nation's history that people now just want to lock up and forget...
...Colgate course is the brainchild of Robert Trent Jones, the dean of American golf architects. Jones attended Colgate and drew up plans for a course as an undergraduate. The plans lay in a drawer for 30 years before an eighteen was actually constructed about a decade...
...fathers: "If you can get into the government, you can get rich." Unless they pay off, merchants find it all but impossible to get papers signed, exports loaded aboard ships or vital spare parts released from customs sheds. "The official just sits behind his desk and opens up a drawer," says the regional manager of an American company. "You start dropping in 10,000-rupiah [$24] notes until he says that's enough and closes the drawer." Suharto, to his credit, has regularly denounced komersial-isasi jabátan (abuse of office). But the sight of generals and poorly...
Segal and Fonda are resourceful per formers. Fonda, improbably pert and stylish even while cleaning out a cash drawer, is especially winning. But both are forced to work hard to keep the laughs coming. So hard, in fact, that it al most hurts...
...definition. The first thing the legislature did this year was formally amend the by-laws to take care of some bureaucratic hassles that had arisen. Norris has organized the files from a loose collection of papers and folders that for years lay forgotten at the bottom of somebody's drawer into an efficient orange file cabinet, one of the few pieces of furniture in the RUS room. The recording secretary takes impressive minutes, which are read aloud at the beginning of each biweekly meeting...