Word: litterbug
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...crime, loses his cool. “You got a lot a damn gall,” he explodes, “to ask me…if I’m moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses, and villages after bein’ a litterbug.”As the debate over the Solomon Amendment plays out in the Supreme Court, I often find myself thinking about Arlo. After all, beyond the other questions that surround the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?...
...military decisions to scrap costly and complicated systems constantly add more litter to the pile. As a result of 30 years of hot and cold wars, the U.S. Department of Defense has become cumulatively-and with a sense of considerable embarrassment-far and away the nation's biggest litterbug...
...pesticides are threatening remote penguins or pelicans; perhaps he could do with some of the humility toward animals that St. Francis tried to graft onto Christianity. The false assumption that nature exists only to serve man is at the root of an ecological crisis that ranges from the lowly litterbug to the lunacy of nuclear proliferation. At this hour, man's only choice is to live in harmony with nature, not conquer...
Could Chief Justice Earl Warren, 76, be a litterbug? That's what Robert I. Schramm, 29, legislative assistant to Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, claimed. Schramm bought a Washington town house bordering a vacant lot leased by the Supreme Court for employee parking. Evidently the lot was also used by the whole neighborhood as a combination dump and doggie-run. Schramm tried complaining to the Supreme Court building's superintendent, the Board of Health, the Supreme Court marshal and the coal company that owns the lot-all of whom passed the buck. Schramm finally filed suit, naming...
...Alice into a winsome memorable addition to the antiwar repertory that young singers across the land are compiling. "You want to know," he asks a sergeant at the induction center, "if I'm moral enough to join the Army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after being a litterbug...