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When the bloom was on the roads, the American who would not-or could not-drive a car was dismissed as a sponger or a dimwit, doomed to a life of dependence on alien wheels and, quite likely, celibacy. The nondriver was a rara Avis (though he could not rent one), akin to the kiwi, a bird that cannot fly. In a country that relies so heavily on the auto for its bread and butter and most of its honey, he was seen and often scorned as a kind of self-decreed cripple...
...stage he declared of his relationship with Thorpe: "By the end of 1962 I was very unhappy. I just wanted to finish the whole thing myself, Thorpe and everything. I just wanted to kill Thorpe." The judge described Scott as "a crook, a fraud, a sponger and a parasite...
...Crimson has one man, captain Tom Sponger, who should be among the top finishers. He has been bothered somewhat by a hip injury but does not expect it to affect him today...
...collected in this book by Anthologist Kapp cover the years from 1934 to 1956, and many of them, particularly those written after Stalin's death, reflect an impatience with Communist society that is apt to surprise U.S. readers. In Yury Nagibin's The Night Guest, a feckless sponger is held in contempt by two zealous Soviet citizens, but not before one of them reflects sadly on the ''warmth and gaiety" that the wastrel brings into people's lives. Loaf Sugar, by Konstantin Paustovsky, features an overbearing Soviet Organization Man whose mere presence "filled...
...Thrifty Sponger. At the 1953 clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago. General Mills demonstrated a new cellulose surgical sponge that can absorb as much as ten ordinary cotton gauze sponges. The sponges, which come in three sizes, take up only 1/20th as much room as regular sponges, can be rinsed out and used again during an operation. Price: 5? to 15? each...