Word: flotsamizing
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Hong Kong Flotsam, Ph.D...
...forgot to mention one more piece of flotsam set adrift by the current trend to depopulation and bankruptcy in colleges and universities [TIME, April 16]. It is the graduate student, working toward ... an underpaid, overworked, professorial position...
...Sample from a recent select-the-best phrase question: "In trying to renew old recollections, we cannot unfold the whole web of our existence; we must 1) winnow the wheat from the chaff, 2) pick out the single threads, 3) scrap the flotsam and jetsam, 4) isolate the relevant factors, 5) distinguish between the warp and the woof." Students who ticked off No. 2 got it right...
...Flotsam, Jetsam. He had not seen anything yet. Congressmen on both sides of the aisle with special interests to serve went to work on the Spence bill. They amended it to weaken it; they amended it to strengthen it. The House agreed to make price controls mandatory if the cost-of-living index went up 5% above the level of June 15 (food prices had already gone up 2% to 3%); the White House shuddered at such a notion. Other amendments got in the bill: to exempt radio, television, periodicals and insurance underwriters from price control; to chop...
...Bits of flotsam had drifted down from the adult world and lodged in old rhymes. In Denver, the verse went...