Word: littering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...design, will be assigned accordingly. Bushy-browed, big-nosed Thomas Mullen Woodward, Philadelphia lawyer, does the Commission's legal jobs, is charged with enforcement of control of foreign commerce. Ruddy, white-haired ex-Congressman John J. Dempsey handles the Commission's business affairs, walks around amid a litter of real-estate deeds, letters from Chambers of Commerce in cities where new yards are building, from Baltimore to Houston to Portland...
...executives who wish to impress visitors with a clean desk, Manhattan's Duplex Desk Co. designed a flat desk with an extra top which can be drawn over the usual litter at a moment's notice...
...director, Stanley Salmen, "have striven earnestly to improve the services which they provide for those undergraduates who have a ligitimate need for help," Dean Hanford said. "It has been their aim to offer advice and help of a constructive and permanent nature rather than to provide a crutch or 'litter' to support the student temporarily...
...gave each handshaker a big Texas grapefruit. One woman fell down and was tromped on; she became hysterical. Five more women fainted at the reception. Another broke her ankle when she jumped over a hedge. When the barbecue was over, the mansion grounds were covered with a vast litter of gnawed bones, pieces of meat, slices of onion, potato chips, paper napkins, paper plates. Then at night the crowd danced in the street, to the tune of hillbilly bands, by the light of the moon and of colored globes strung across the rear of the Capitol lawn...
...When not on the courts, coaches Jack Barnaby and Dick Dorson spend most of their time in the shop, discussing strategy with their players or demonstrating a new slice backhand--to the imminent danger of life, limb, and the surrounding show-cases. Squad lists and tournament draw cards litter the room, for this is the indoor center of Harvard's tennis and squash activity...