Word: wastebasketful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frank Sinatra. With that discovery, all public interest in Morton Cooper's novel should wane-although it probably won't. The author and his publisher have aimed it confidently at the bestseller list, although Cooper's literary defects and unerring tastelessness would fill an office wastebasket. Orlando is an unmitigated bore tirelessly indulging his libido, yearning to become head of the White House's Cultural Exchange program-a prize ultimately denied him. The book is so bad that Bennett Cerf of Random House, who used to distribute books published by Bernard Geis, refused to handle...
...five foot square chunk of the ceiling of Sever 36 fell in on Professor Raoul Bott's Math 11 class yesterday morning upsetting a wastebasket, a chair, and a desk and covering students in the front row with dust...
...Better a Yucca-Flats. Merely have at hand four quarts of vodka, 15 3-oz. bottles of maraschino cherries, ten mashed oranges, lemons and limes-plus rinds, 1 lb. of cane sugar, 10 lbs. of ice cubes, and proceed to dump the whole mess into a wastebasket. Stirring recommended...
...TIME'S irresponsible cover story on Escobedo [April 29] should be cited for contempt of accuracy and objectivity and sentenced to the wastebasket...
...grad student then asked the detectives to accompany him back to the Harvard Trust Company to search for the note which had been thrown in a wastebasket. The detectives reluctantly agreed. They entered the other bank and sought the wastebasket in question. The crushed note was there, and the detectives freed a grateful Dillaway...