Word: littering
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...after box was manhandled up to the deck, passed to the small boats, nosing against the big hull like a prodigious litter of hungry pigs. Office workers, off-duty firemen, taxi drivers jolted out from Halifax, 18 miles away, to share in the bonanza. Cases of field rations were broken open on the shore, their cigarets and candy snatched out, the rest of the contents scattered over the rocks...
...Apennine Mountains of Italy white-clad Allied patrols probed and pushed at the Nazi lines last week. On skis and snowshoes they fought short, murderous engagements with German patrols, pressed in closer to fight with their fists, fingernails, teeth. Enemy snipers fired at the litter squads carrying in the wounded...
...noon, picking his way through a litter of broken dishes, George stopped to eat a jar of caviar. "Please go," said the restaurant owner. "If you could just go away? Quietly? Just disappear, so to speak? I give you five dollars...
...Kitten Power in the war against vermin: . . . The achievement of Sally the Cat, producing kittens to deal with this menace, are worth noting. . . . Production remained at a fairly steady level of three litters a year . . . averaging 2% kittens a litter. . . . This is regarded as a war effort far exceeding that of. any other belligerent cat in the Allied camp and may be favorably compared to the output of Katinka Pusskin, champion mother cat of Russia and Heroine of the Soviet Union...
...dazzlingly elegant De Koven wrote 20 operettas and two grand operas. So little faith did The Bostonians have in Robin Hood that they spent exactly $109.50 on its Chicago premiere. Wrote one of its early critics: "It is always well to drown the first litter of pups. Therefore, it may be proper to forgive Messrs...