Word: wastebasketful
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During the working day it helps to pray: "Lord, fill me with enthusiasm for my product (naming it)." With nightfall comes the time to "flush negatives," to practice "mind-drainage," or (after the fashion of Author Peale himself) to "visualize 'dropping' mental impedimenta into an imaginary wastebasket...
...variety show (TIME, Dec. 3) in terms of his virtues as a "news com mentator," announced his readiness to crush every last one of his many enemies: "All those columnists rapping me," he wrote in TV Guide, "where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket ... I want to get back at a lot of people. If I drop dead before I get to the Zs in the alphabet, you'll know how I hated...
These questions were contained in a circular sent to 470 U.S. heart specialists by an organization called the American Research Foundation of Princeton, N.J. Last week the American Medical Association indignantly advised doctors what to do with the questionnaires: throw them in the wastebasket, "to prevent the hysteria that such information could foment...
Accommodating & Fair. When the news first broke, some 20 colleges wired the foundation in desperation. Because of the stipulation that they must match whatever grants they got, they had simply thrown the original questionnaires in the wastebasket. A few colleges, e.g., Massachusetts' Anna Maria, got their accreditation only the day before the final list was made up. The foundation tried to be accommodating; it also tried to be as fair as possible. Roman Catholic institutions, for instance, which have some teachers who get no salaries, will get grants based on a full payroll...
With a sheaf of ballots, each stamped with its party's symbol, the voter squeezed into a booth. There he folded one ballot into a tight pellet. Emerging, he tossed the unneeded cards into a wastebasket, dropped the pellet through the ballot box's slot, bowed to the mekhum, returned to his canoe and glided away on the pea-soupy Tonle Bassac...