Word: loafered
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...joint House military-naval subcommittee promptly undertook an inquiry into "loafers" and "expediters." First Witness Bill Jeffers explained: a loafer, in railroad vernacular, is "a person assigned to an unnecessary job." In that category he put "socalled inspectors and expediters" who were trying to "take over production and tell managers how to do their jobs." Answer came from another witness, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson: Army and Navy representatives were "indispensable" breakers of bottlenecks in war plants; "Mr. Jeffers himself has a corps of expediters in his rubber program...
...passenger trade. But before her birth was complete, World War II and the Neutrality Act closed in her horizons. Since she left her fitting-out dock ten months ago, her life has been a pleasant tedium of Caribbean cruises. Last week adventure crooked an imperious finger to this immaculate loafer of the Antilles. She was drafted into the U.S. Navy...
...Harvard Glider Club is planning to enter its Baby Albatross, "Loafer," in the Eleventh Annual Soaring Contest at Elmira, New York, next month, David Stacey '40, club president, announced yesterday. The club has recently purchased a Schweltzer Utility gilder, in addition to the "Loafer," which will be used to train new gilder enthusiasts...
...academic idealism and intellectual honesty which inspires the Crimson's call for a concerted boycott or blockade or cram parlors; there is no need to invoke sacrifices for a noble cause. A cool-headed, pragmatic consideration of facts should now prove entirely sufficient to convince even the most hardboiled loafer of the inadvisability of acquiring per express a canned Harvard education...
...dollar . . . till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with. . ."). Radicals and reformers like Alcott thought him anti-social ("God does not approve of the popular movements," said Henry, who believed in reforming oneself first). The good citizens of Concord simply called him a loafer who had thrown away a Harvard education...