Word: misspent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter of putting on heirs, of inventing a past that never was and promising a future that could never be. Endless rascality ultimately becomes tedious and irksome; all the world loves a confidence man until it discovers its wallet is missing. Yet Wolff's account of this misspent life is absorbing throughout. It is not just the story of "a wreck of a desperado," as he calls the Duke at one point; it is an engrossing, often moving search for the troubled bond between sons and fathers that is known as love...
...start of the audit was the culmination of a bizarre series of events resulting in Harvard's reimbursement of $132,000 in federal funds to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The funds had been misspent in the school's Department of Nutrition...
...Publetter [Dec. 6] writer is a breakfast-eating, Brooks Brothers type. If your man had misspent his youth to better effect he would know that a fourflusher is not a cheater, as the Pub letter alleges, but a poor old bluffer trying to do his best in a stud game with four cards of one suit facing up (that's a four-flush) and nothing but dogmeat in the hole (what he needs for a legitimate flush is five cards of one suit...
...force performances. And Page has the good sense to refrain from superfluous footage and to let their acting say it all. (One shudders to imagine the possibilities: newsreel shots of the maturing Beatles with each jump in time, perhaps, or a montage of their interspliced faces for some misspent Bergmanesque ambiguity...
...opposition has sliced away one-third of the U.M.W. appropriation for organizing and political action. Trbo-vich's charge that money is being misspent touched off a five-month audit of U.M.W. books by the Department of Labor. Though it is unfinished, the audit, according to department sources, should give the union a clean bill of health. The allegations, though, are one reason that the U.M.W. lost a recent organizing drive in Bell County, Ky. Says Miller...