Word: wastebasketful
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...half his term completed, will have to interrupt long-range legislative and administrative plans to commence his quest for re-election. With biennial campaigns the Governor may never plan without a cautious appraisal of the electorate. Beneficial long-run projects which might win immediate disfavor must go to the wastebasket. Only with four-year tenure can the Governor develop for the General Court the coherent and integrated plans that are prerequisite for far-sighted legislation...
...Saturday afternoon staff members dummy the paper and type their stencils in a dingy office on the third floor of the Union. These quarters are practically unknown; only a few weeks ago the board coaxed a promise from J. Vernon Patrick '52, Secretary of the Union, "to have the wastebasket emptied twice a month...
...sheriff's deputies investigating a burglary at Brynwood Country Club noted a child's sled missing, followed the runner tracks for five miles, finally found Claude W. Harmon, 33, doggedly trudging along pulling a sledload of three cocktail tables, two end tables, twelve tablecloths, 31 napkins, one wastebasket, one topcoat, assorted glass and silverware...
...HUGE SEASON, by Wright Morris (306 pp.; Macmillan; $4.25), takes a set of characters that might have been found in F. Scott Fitzgerald's wastebasket and imagines what became of them in the harsh morning after the tender night. Among the characters: a young, rich Greek god from the Middle West who is soul-sick for no clearly apparent reason; a flapper who literally sinks her teeth into nice young men; a nice young man; a Jewish intellectual who can't make up his mind whether he wants to be a quarter-miler or just a social climber...
Last week Mansure cast a baleful eye on leaky water faucets and warned: "A dripping faucet [wastes] 30? a month." Wastebaskets also caught his eye. Wrote Mansure: "When papers have missed the wastebasket and desks are littered, the cleaning operation takes as much as 75% more time per unit cleaned." His newest order: "Keep your desk neat, and your aim at the wastebasket true...