Word: wastebasketful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know what Mr. Atkinson would do with our plans," declared Professor Gropius, he would throw them in the wastebasket. Most of his plans and those of the regional planning board intend merely to modify that ugly box in the middle of the Square but the only hope for solution is by a complete rebuilding of the Square. As it stands now, Harvard Square is one of the worst in the country...
...mend] the small bowel, next they sew up the rent in the colon. In civilian life any one of those would be regarded as a major operation." Before the two doctors finished, they had removed a total of nearly two feet of gut, which they tossed into a wastebasket...
...down he went in the polls. Hoarsely and hopefully he fought on. On the very day he fell the lowest in the polls, when the. shrewdest possible politicking seemed necessary just to save him from landslide defeat, he stood in Detroit, after hecklers had thrown a melon and a wastebasket at him, and spoke not for votes, but made a plea to American mothers to "teach our children to believe in America...
Dorothy Lamour and her husband, Army Air Forces Captain William Ross Howard III, entered their cottage at Arrowhead Springs Hotel, heard a rustle in the wastebasket, investigated. Announced Captain Howard: "It's a cat." He overturned the basket, said: "Scat!" The skunk scatted. So did the Howards...
Edited straight into the wastebasket was a Joint Advisory Council (containing Puerto Rican members) to initiate changes in the island's political status. The subcommittee stood stanchly on its assertion that the U.S. Congress must "determine for itself at the proper time . . . the ultimate political destiny of the Island." The Puerto Rican politicos cried in pain. Forthwith, the political campaign began. The great popular cause between now and the November Puerto Rican elections would be complete self-government, so far as the politicos were concerned. The issues closest to the hearts and stomachs of the two million hard-pressed...