Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this, plus the normal need to promote the successful juniors and discard the weaker ministers after two years in power, promised some changes before the Conservatives' annual conference in October. Churchill sometimes talks of quitting, but it is not the talk of a man who has a date in mind. A likelier possibility, which many powerful elements in the party urge, is that Eden will give up the Foreign Office and concentrate on being deputy Prime Minister. This would enable Churchill to stay in office, to shuck some of the routine responsibilities, and to insure the succession...
...almost automatically, she became a belter. She found herself "living" every song she sang, and had to discard such gloomy numbers as Stormy Weather because "it ruined me and it ruined the audience...
...pleasure, and only his intense eyes glow. He has no notable administrative talent, and economists have been heard to mutter that he sometimes seems to be "an economic illiterate." He wears his imperfections humbly, like a suit of well-worn clothing, as if to suggest that attempting to discard them would be indecent...
...Brauchli analyzed the ash of modern plants that grow in parts of the eastern U.S. where the water shows faint traces of germanium. He found that some plants, mostly from swampy areas near mountains, have as much as 5% of the metal in their ash. Apparently they "discard" the germanium, depositing it in outlying parts, such as leaves and bark. Dr. Brauchli believes that it might be profitable, in favored spots, to grow water-greedy plants merely for the germanium that they try to throw away...
...resourceful, untiring, dauntless ministrant to human need-human need of all kinds." The old-fashioned picture of the missionary as a "well-intentioned but rather commonplace preacher, a Bible in one hand and an umbrella in the other, standing under a palm tree exhorting half-naked savages to discard their heathen ways" is as out of date as the daguerreotype. The typical Christian mission today is a center of three or four buildings-a hospital, a school, a church-from which a team of co-workers ("minister, doctor, nurse, school superintendent and teacher, agriculturist, social worker") moves out into...