Word: squandering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Southern primaries held weeks ago. At the other extreme is the stronger wing dominated by political radicals. These self-styled liberals are the ones who really challenge sane, sound, forward-looking government in the U.S. . . . You and I know the irresistible impulse of the political radical. It is to squander money-your money. Republicans practice efficiency and thrift . . . dependable government . . . trustworthy, progressive government...
...romantic comedy that is all dressed up but obviously has no place to go-but then, Broadway scarcely has the resources that are required to gild this sort of lulu. Instead of $100,000, the movie's Producer-Director Stanley Donen had about $1,500,000 to squander. Instead of painted flats, he had the city of London for his backdrop, and some of the city's stateliest halls for his interiors. Instead of nature's timid hues, he had Technicolor. Instead of a couple of merely famous names-Mary Martin and Charles Boyer-on his marquee...
...Moliere's chief contribution here was the creation of the leading character, Monsieur Jourdain, a wealthy but penny-pinching middle class tradesman who will nevertheless squander any amount of money to acquire the social graces and intellectual refinement that characterize people of "quality." Jourdain will live forever as the man who was overcome with astonished glee upon learning that what he had been speaking for forty years was prose. But he is also the man who puts on his gown in order to hear music better; and who, on being asked whether he understands the Latin that has just been...
...delay, the Communists could also take military advantage of the free man's own virtues-his reluctance to squander life unnecessarily if there is a chance of peace, his sense of honest dealing which keeps him from waging war while talking peace. No such inhibitions bother the iron men of Communism...