Word: unwantedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To reduce the size of its unwanted hoard, the railways are now broadcasting urgent announcements on trains reminding passengers to take their box lunches and briefcases. Burial urns are never mentioned, said one official, because "it's rather poor taste" to say something like "Please check to see you...
Divorced. William August Bartholomae, 69, onetime California oil-field roughneck, who struck it rich on an odd lot of unwanted land, becoming one of the state's richest men with oil, mining and ranching interests; by Third Wife Sara Bartholomae, 47; on grounds of cruelty; after 19 years of...
"Our practical choice," he went on, "is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budget surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits-a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy, or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax...
Nitrobenzene is not a desirable rocket fuel; its production was shown only as a demonstration. But R.P.I, chemists are confident that their complex synthesis process can also make exotic high-energy fuels that cannot be manufactured in any other way-fuels with unfamiliar names that are now only whispered because...
The folk singer who sings in public is a self-conscious fraud who needs to be scorned, hated and pointed out. He needs to feel that he is as unwanted as he feels he is. Nothing shall come of nothing.