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...practicalities, television prefers another image of itself as a high-minded public service. And slowly, the feeling got around that Ollie Treyz had become a poor front man. When FCC Chairman Newton Minow talked darkly about the TV wasteland, no one doubted that he viewed Treyz as the chief waster...
...held Holiness for a jest-and Courtesy for a waster...
Just Hit It. Unlike Hagen, Demaret helps out his opponent with cries of "Great shot." The Haig was a deliberate time-waster, rattling his foe by taking great pains in lining up easy shots. Hagen confessed once: "What's the use of fooling around with shots you don't think you can make. . . . But when you get an easy one, study it, measure it, give it the business. Then when you make it; just as you knew you could all the time . . . everybody cheers...
...known as 'Little Gaither the Money Waster and Woman Chaser.' I thought I was a big shot. Two or three grands on me at all times...
During the war Japanese officialdom frowned on go as a time-waster. After it came off the blacklist, millions of fans stayed down in the dumps-the game was not the same without Chinese-born National Champion Wu Ching-yuan. Wu had become a convert of Aiko Nagashima, high priestess of the Jiwu cult of Buddhism, and she had said...