Word: wastebasketful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something delirious to read in a spare moment, you might try Panassie's new opus, "The Real Jazz." The word "moment" is used advisedly, as you can't read it for more than a minute straight without laughing your head off or throwing it in a wastebasket...
Every room in the University is a veritable storehouse of desperately needed rubber and scrap metal. That old tin wastebasket and the miniature rubber tire surrounding the ash-tray could certainly be put to better use in a jeep or Flying Fortress. Cloth scrap, especially silk, is also needed, and those old frayed shirts and ties will help. Since representatives have been appointed in every entry to take care of the donations, no great pains have to be taken to get rid of your scrap. If every student contributes just one pound of scrap, the country will be enriched...
...Literal Friend. In Birmingham, a passerby investigated a rustle in a curbstone wastebasket marked PLACE LITTER HERE, uncovered a dog and her litter of four...
...artilleryman, he commands the respect of combat generals, often gives them a useful new idea, such as using puddlejumper planes for observation work (see p. 72). Affable and efficient, he hurries conversations along with a pleasant "yep, yep," puffs away at thick cigars, flicks the ashes deftly into a wastebasket four feet away, occasionally extracts a bell-shaped chocolate drop from a pile on the desk. His duties have included everything from handling administrative details of the Army training program to moving Japanese off the West Coast. Everyone who knows himp gives him top marks...
...Pierre Laval's nosing around Vichy failed, Adolf Hitler might force Vichy's assurances to the U.S. into the wastebasket. This week it was rumored that Vichy had halted the Riom war-guilt trials, quite possibly because they had outraged Hitler (TIME, March...