Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another time, Sullivan thought that all statues should go into the war time scrap drive-works of art included. He then introduced an order in the City Council demanding that the bronze statues in the Germanic Museum he seized and melted into scrap. He sincerely thought he was helping the war effort by this order, but he felt too that statues of German heroes should be melted anyway...
...past five months, said O'Conor, no less than 14,373 tons of materials useful in war-steel products, scrap rubber, transformers, motors, fire engines-had been carried to China from U.S. ports and from occupied Japan. Most of the shipments, O'Conor pointed out, were technically legal, since many of the products were not specifically banned for export. But some shipments, even though legal, were plain dodges of U.S. and Japanese export controls...
...report, made public Monday night, after a two year study, recommended that the five largest departments, Government, History, English, Economics, and Social Relations, scrap their present tutorial systems, in which the top 30 to 40 percent get individual attention...
...scrap a ditty...
...Sample from a recent select-the-best phrase question: "In trying to renew old recollections, we cannot unfold the whole web of our existence; we must 1) winnow the wheat from the chaff, 2) pick out the single threads, 3) scrap the flotsam and jetsam, 4) isolate the relevant factors, 5) distinguish between the warp and the woof." Students who ticked off No. 2 got it right...