Word: squander
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...didn't squander a fourth period lead...
...obviate the problem of the unwanted and embarassing gift album, you need only to express definite and immutable musical preferences before your loved ones go out to squander their money on something that will make you the laughingstock of your school, church or place of employment. You should be firm: inform your particular nuclear unit that you will douse the tree with water, short-circuit the lights and burn down the living room if you do not get what you want. It's best to ask for a lot of records because the stores sometimes run out, leaving you again...
...young black radicals during the McCarthy era and as a consequence know only too well that real politics requires intellectual clarity and considerable sacfifice. It is for this reason and many others that Kilson "goes off." In his judgment black students are simply irresponsible and possibly immoral to squander such exceptional resources when the black community so desperately needs a mature and policy-oriented intelligentsia...
Full of bizarre images and powerful, if tortured emotions, Fernanda Eberstadt's Low Tide is well worth the read. It is the tale of Jezebel, a 19-year-old Manhattanite, and the two sons of her father's oldest friend. The latter pair are located in England where they squander their fabulous wealth in unimaginable ways...
...Reagan could easily squander his clout if he insists on making every legislative proposal a rigid test of ideological wills, as some within the Administration seemed inclined to do. "Going over the head of Congress is not going to work this time unless he can show that the Democrats have become recalcitrants," says a member of the House Republican leadership. "He's got to try to work with Congress first." That hardly seemed to be too much to ask of any President, even one who carried 49 out of 50 States...