Word: wastebasketful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simplest outdoor grills ever devised is offered by Hammacher Schlemmer for a mere $7.95. Folded it looks like a collapsed knapsack, and unfolded like a square wastebasket with a metal rack perched on top. It cooks a steak in six minutes and uses the most plentiful fuel in the land - old news papers, four sheets to a sirloin...
...incensed when I saw your selection of the Man of the Year that I felt like putting my magazine into the wastebasket...
...land a merger that may save his Depression-gored financial empire. While waiting for this rococo rotter to tot up his accounts with a final bullet, idle-minded theater partygoers may wonder, in days to come, whether this playscript was found in Terence Rattigan's typewriter or his wastebasket...
...confides, "that by 'thinking' they meant stocking up on radical ideas." When one class admitted it did not care whether Frost returned the papers he had assigned so long as he gave them marks, the outraged poet tore the papers up and tossed them in a wastebasket...
MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles is a wastebasket for crumpled lives. On its grimy benches and littered walks gather the old, the warped, the baffled, the embittered, the workless, aimless flotsam of a great city. A faded woman in an antiquated ball dress and long black gloves glides along, clutching a parasol. Two fat, coarse-faced girls stroll hand in hand. An old man sits limp and vacant-eyed, numbed by the weight of his loneliness...