Word: wastebasketful
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...comparison evident in Hofer's Houses, it is equally haunting. When he finishes a painting, Troekes says, he is "always quite startled and in a new world. In that world everything is quite natural for me. If it's not natural, the picture goes into the wastebasket...
Auxiliary Equipment. In Syracuse, N.Y., while an usher was looking for an extinguisher to quench a fire in a wastebasket, moviegoers put out the flames with artificial orange juice from an automatic drink dispenser...
...astringent and stinging humor. His audience roared with laughter when he happily recounted what happened after he discovered FBI men were searching his room in Manhattan's Edison Hotel in 1940. He typed a series of mysterious notes, tore them up, and planted them in his wastebasket; then he rented a room in a nearby hotel and nightly watched through binoculars as the G-men tried to put. the pieces together...
...NORTHAMPTON MASS" it said. That didn't make any sense. Vag went on. "SORRY CAN'T COME FOR GAME MUST STAY WITH SICK MOTHER STOP SOME OTHER TIME," Vag read it carefully twice over, then crumpled it into a small ball and flipped it toward the wastebasket. It bounced off the rim, and sat smugly on the edge...
...Ward insisted on running the company in fact as well as name. Soon Ward had enough directors to outvote Fairchild. Fairchild-who invented the Fairchild camera used by the U.S. Army for aerial mapping-prided himself on being an idea man. Ward threw most of his ideas in the wastebasket. Three years ago, fed up, Fairchild resigned as chairman...