Word: whiledealing
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Somewhere in the Southwest Pacific a poll-minded Army officer whiled away his free hours making a public-opinion survey among U.S. troops. He used the interview method, took plenty of time, quizzed more than 700 enlisted men: soldiers, sailors and marines; whites and Negroes. His results:
The first day the Nazis tortured Communist Peter Slavek they began by spitting in his face. In a bleak, spacious basement room, where the dim light oozed through frosted glass windows and the bored torturers whiled away their leisure hours playing cards and reading newspapers, they next broke his nose...
>Callahan the Bum, who whiled away most of a summer afternoon trying to hang himself on one of the main streets and gave up in disgust because nobody would notice him.
Off Stage. In Moscow the visiting diplomatic and military missions were dined and vodkaed at an elaborate dinner in the National Hotel. Toasts went round to "Our Glorious Red Army . . . Our Glorious Allies . . . Our Glorious Leader, Tovarish Stalin." If Churchill and Bullitt were in Moscow, they, too, were toasted. It...
It all started three months ago at an ordinary enough little party. The guests of honor, several Federal District Supreme Court Justices, had been fashionably late. But the other guests of Colonel Alfredo Zárate Albarrán, Mexico State* Governor, hadn't minded: they had whiled away...