Word: squanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independent of the industry it covers. Hotz has repeatedly questioned the ethics of aerospace manufacturers' lavishing free travel and entertainment on military people who control defense contracts. "Neither the aerospace industry nor the military," he wrote, "have exhibited much sense in their blatant exhibitions of how they can squander the taxpayers' dollars in public saturnalia designed to make a pitch for individual service." He has also urged commercial airlines to lower their fares and pay better wages to their maintenance crews. Occasionally a company indignantly pulls its ads; sometimes a disgruntled advertiser complains to Publisher Robert W. Martin
...Greek bearing gifts of a Mercourial nature can only squander them in this lurid, leaden adaptation of a novel by Marguerite Duras, who also wrote Hiroshima, Mon Amour. While the screen moodily changes color, turning from light sepia to silvery grey and all but blushing with shame, Melina plays up the purple of her role as a sort of sick Samaritan. "How do you stond dee pain?" she wheezes, speaking of life itself. "Geev me a dhrink, Paul." But liquor is the least of her problems. Voyeurism and incipient lesbianism are enough to make any young matron restive...
...which it must communicate to future doctors, simply by multiplying formal academic exercises. Rather than improving, reorganizing, and streamlining the present courses, they assert, the School has only increased the number of mechanical, uninstructive tasks which these courses require. Thus, in addition to inhibiting original thinking, these formal exercises squander valuable time...
...pointed out in graphic terms what the people in this country need to know: that water is no longer a commodity; it is a luxury we can't afford to squander. Well done...
...parody of King Lear. Mrs. Lord is a solid-gold widow of 75, with nothing on her Bostonian brain but freshly dyed hair and a yen for yachts. Lear courts catastrophe when he parts with his realm; Mrs. Lord gets into trouble when her daughters fear that she will squander her fortune on herself. Lear is cast out on the storm-blasted heath and loses his mind; Mrs. Lord is kidnaped after a Boston Symphony concert and railroaded to a loony...