Word: squander
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...Carey Thomas, coldly reminded her: "You can have your babies in August." Last week, after five babies, 17 years at Brearley and 14 more as head of New York's Barnard College, Educator Mclntosh, 62, announced that she would finally retire come next commencement. Future plans: to squander a year on "a real holiday," then move off to rural Massachusetts with Husband Rustin Mclntosh and continue her literary crusade against the tendency of educated women to "settle down into domesticity and never raise a peep...
...Explosion. Probably the most difficult problem of the modern world, he said, is the inequality between rich and poor nations. In a remark clearly applicable to the U.S., he said that countries with more than enough food must share it with those that have too little-"to destroy or squander goods that other people need in order to live is to offend against justice and humanity." But while lending such assistance, the economically advanced countries must "overcome the temptation to impose themselves by means of these works . . . a new form of colonialism." On the other hand, the population explosion...
...nearly a stock hero. Certainly he possesses all the deadly virtues. But Ivashov plays the role gently, with humor (shrewdly bribing an officiously corrupt train guard, telling white lies to the father of the soldier whose wife is unfaithful), and humanity (when as last he meets his mother they squander their moment together in awkward small talk); he is convincing. Shura's part is acted with purity and directness. This young Russian actress has a face so lovely that I didn't even resent Alyosha's soppy flashback memories...
Because one builds an "eye-catching" school this doesn't completely satisfy the prerequisites of a sound education. As long as finance committees and American towns prefer to squander their money on architects and contractors, they can expect teachers to remain underpaid, books to be second rate, and their children to continue to get the mediocre education that Hutchins, Adler and Rickover have been lamenting for years...
...burned wood in his stove, ate out of cans. He paid a marriage broker only $15 of the promised $50 fee for finding him a wife, on the theory that it might not work out. It didn't, not after she was extravagant enough on one occasion to squander $1 for a taxi ride home...