Word: goldbricked
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...Fighting Tools" (Clampett, October 43) alerts soldiers that great weapons are useless without careful maintenance; SNAFU ends the cartoon as, literally, a horse's ass in a German Prison Kampf. "The Goldbrick" (Tashlin, September 43) has SNAFU urging his fellow GIs, "I'm a goldbrick, be like me, use your head / With a heart of pure gold and a backside of lead," before singing a hymn to the lazy life to the tune of "Tit Willow" from "The Mikado." It ends with a bucktoothed Jap (they always had prominent dentures and were always called Jap) threatening, "Here lies a goldbrick...
...McCain co-chairman a "vicious bigot" 25. The Straight Talk Express, for one 26. Mob turncoat arrested for allegedly pushing Ecstasy 27. Sotheby's CEO Brooks, who resigned 28. Java emanation 29. Rebellious Sri Lankans 30. Busy mo. for 1-Across 31. McCain co-campaign chairman Rudman 32. Goldbrick 33. Sacagawea's likeness on the new $1 coin allegedly got a "__ job" 35. Like venison 38. Either of two Gas House Gang moundsmen 39. Cain raiser? 42. South Vietnam's __ Dinh Diem 44. Pindaric opus...
...employee, handwriting analysts will assess at least 20 different cursive characteristics and advise the prospective employer about the chances of a person's being a future embezzler or goldbrick. Ruth Brayer, president of Graphological Services International of New York, sees signs of dishonesty in illegible handwriting and retraced lines. Brayer, who counts Citibank among her clients, also hears warning bells "when a signature looks different from the rest of a person's handwriting...
...Goldbrick Boredom. Motiveless "busywork," the lowly chores of military housekeeping, and menial jobs that fall short of the challenges of civilian life are principal causes for low morale where it is found among reservists. "Our daily routine," fumed Sergeant Robert A. Levy, a District of Columbia Air Guardsman at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, "consists of reading magazines and newspapers, listening to the radio, playing cards, organizing and participating in chess tournaments, visiting the base gymnasium, pitching horseshoes and taking coffee breaks." Levy, who was president of a Maryland computer consulting firm until he was called...
Andy Sheaffer, the hero, is a goldbrick long before he gets to the induction center. His gentlemanly marks at U.C.L.A. are designed to "keep the draft board happy without exciting envy and jealousy among my schoolmates." Andy figures he can work the student ploy right through law school and tool past the draft-age barrier of 26, preferably in his cozy little MG. But he underestimates the power of a woman. His girl Susan cannot stand a slacker. Or as she puts it to Andy: "Everything with you is cotton candy." The Cotton Candy Kid is so flummoxed by this...