Word: frittered
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...seminar. "This is one of the most surprising and overlooked facts in America today . . . Churches possess a larger and wider allegiance . . . than ever before," but crime, alcoholism, divorce and sexual laxity are on the alarming increase. "Either there will be a moral renewal or [religion's gains] will fritter out into futility...
...droll, Maupassant-like tale about a young married woman and her lover, who fritter away the few hours they have together in bickering and jealous suspicion...
...South, suh, there's no sech thing as snow, and people knock off nine holes before and after every corn fritter. While the Harvard squad has been swinging ski poles and replacing the turf on sitzmarks, the southern schools have spent the last month practicing on blossoming courses...
...wrath of Lord Keynes when he returned from negotiating the Washington loan and learned of commitments Britain had made. These included exchange arrangements with France, Belgium and Denmark, credits to Greece, help for the British zone in Germany. Keynes stormed that these were "Foreign Office frivolities," which would fritter away too many dollars. He scolded: "The Foreign Office must learn that we have become a poor nation and must cut our foreign policy accordingly. It is useless to have grandiose ideas that we cannot afford to put into operation . . . and our first duty to ourselves and to the world...
...fullness of his first day of freedom, the sights of a new-found world fascinated him. Anxious not to fritter away the $10 Lawyer John Crankshaw had given him, he lunched in a "nice little restaurant." He walked and walked, stopped to listen whenever he heard a radio, but feared police would make him move on. Said he, apprehensively: "I've had enough trouble so I didn't stay listening too long...