Word: wastebasketful
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...another occasion a professor was alert enough to douse sudden flames in a wastebasket in his office in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. If he had not been there, gallons of inflammable alcohol would have caught fire and destroyed the building...
...these strips. Colburn had a different remedy: he consigned three of the most offensive ones to the wastebasket...
...Paar is frantic. "That wastebasket is filled with routines by the writers. This is what I end up with-two sheets from my own notebook...
...Into the Wastebasket." On the second day, Sobolev made the most of the Secretary-General's position. The U.S., he said, had thrown the work of the U.N. "into the wastebasket" while still "singing eulogies to the group." Under the circumstances, said he piously, "no self-respecting state in Asia or Africa, or Europe for that matter, will agree to send troops to pursue the purposes which the American troops are supposed to seek in Lebanon." What was the U.S. doing but resorting to Hitler's "big lie"? Retorted the U.S.'s Lodge acidly: "I must defer...
...TIME, Jan. 24, 1955), was so good that many readers have been impatiently waiting for the first of the "even dozen" novels she hoped to write. But having written the first one, she discarded it. The Hard Blue Sky is her second, and while it is not for the wastebasket, it is additional proof that Author Grau is a born short-story writer. She could make the ordinary Negroes and whites of The Black Prince seem special and even important. But in nearly 500 pages of The Hard Blue Sky, its poor-white fishermen wear out their fictional welcome...