Word: jettison
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...these combined yearnings appeared on U.S. newsstands in the form of a new magazine, Pageant, edited by Lyons, published by Hillman. To get the paper for a new mass magazine (first issue: 500,000 copies), Publisher Hillman had to sacrifice some of his old ones. He decided to jettison the detectives and comics, which have been netting $250,000 annual profit...
Little Gid Planish, aged ten, dreams of being something "rotund and oratorical." At college he concludes that virtue has to be organized. At 29 he is Dr. Gideon Planish, Professor of Rhetoric in Kinnikinick College, Iowa. He wears a small brown beard and is ready to jettison his too-provincial mistress. Already expert at self-deception and hypocrisy, he does not get rid of Teckla for his own good, but for hers. Thinks Gideon: "It wouldn't be fair to take her off to New York and Washington and face those snobs and intriguers...
...young English society woman, Diana discovers a corpse (her husband's) in her study. A luckless American gambler (Brian Donlevy), who had dropped in to forage in her kitchen, obligingly helps her jettison the body in a remote telephone booth. But the corpse turns up again in the study next morning. After this, nothing is very surprising, including Diana's and Brian's escape in a stolen car and their encounter with a nest of Nazi conspirators in a Scottish castle. The Scottish proceedings end where they sometimes seem to have begun-in a distillery...
Hoping to sight a sub (and sink same) in the Windward Passage, Ensign Pinter did not want to jettison his bombs. But on the take-off he was sorely tempted to let them go. Said his report last week...
...four bombs fell, killing 34, injuring 120, leaving 500 homeless. This week Dublin identified bomb fragments as German, protested to Berlin, which had acknowledged bombings of Eire. Dublin police suspected, as before, that Nazi planes had been lost over Eire, that the bombing had been a murderous form of jettison...