Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loose Ends. Solution of the central issue-the make-up of a new Polish government-left some loose ends dangling. Loosest was Tomasz Arciszewski's London Government, now definitely in the discard. Poland's heroic, well-trained army in exile was still under the London Government's command, and still unreconciled to the changes at home...
When the division moved to Luzon, there were new terms: for every live Jap, one case of beer and a three-day pass to Manila. Sergeant Brown took a prisoner in a cave by persuading him to discard his hara-kiri grenade and come out. Then Brown picked up his beer and went to Manila...
...discuss was his own recent work. His last work of any importance was published in 1929. Everyone is waiting for his eighth symphony. He wouldn't talk at all about this; he said, 'I am my sternest critic. I won't discuss work I may discard...
PHANTOM VICTORY-Erwin Lessner-Putnam ($2.50). "The curtain falls," said the German chief of staff to the assembled generals, "but the play is not over. . . . The National Socialist era ... was just an episode in the life of our nation. . . . You will discard your uniforms, [but] may I add that politics is a continuation of war by other means...
Noss would also discard the Western collection plate, substitute a wooden box at the door. Says he: "The Japanese do not have our matter-of-fact attitude to ward money. For example, to give a tip to a hotel maid by handing her the cold and bare coins is to show one's lack of breeding; one will wrap the money in clean white paper, and if possible put this little parcel on a tray. Perhaps the Christian people are used to it now, but lifting the offering to the sound of clinking and jingling coins is often quite...