Word: trashbasket
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...stood fast, literally under the guns of miniature cruiser batteries set up in a corner of the Senate chamber by Senator Hale of Maine to illustrate his objections to the Treaty. Sixteen reservations had been stacked on the rostrum only to be toppled off one by one into the trashbasket and defeat by a long-suffering Senate majority. Only the Norris reservation stipulating that no secret agreements lurked behind the Treaty itself appeared likely to be tacked on to the instrument-and then only if stripped of its "offensive" preamble which recited President Hoover's refusal to deliver...
Upon every newspaper bureau in Washington, in and out of season, rains political publicity. Produced mostly by verbose, news-ignorant hacks, these handouts are sluiced into the trashbasket unread. As they never get into print, they represent a major waste in political party management...
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