Word: wastebasket
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...dead body of an infant strangled by its umbilical cord has been found in a wastebasket. The wastebasket belongs to Agnes (Mia Dillon), a nun of a contemplative order. There is no reason to doubt that Agnes gave birth to the child in her room and then murdered...
...Retrieve paper airplanes, empty wastebasket, reread Playboy centerfold. Remember the writer who set fire to his apartment to avoid meeting a deadline...
WHEN YOU CLOSE this magazine and line your wastebasket with it, or pin the cover on your memo board--each to his own--you may wonder why such mediocre personalities as those the magazine describes are the heroes and heroines of our society. In this sense the editors of Interview should not be blamed for the dreariness of the scenes they record. Form tends to follow content, and it would take genius to paint most ofInterview's subjects in other than flat planes...
...Office equipment rental charges for the July 12th week reaching $37.50 each for stack chairs, $55 for a typewriter stand, $140 for a filing cabinet and $10 for a wastebasket. TV sets are $50 per day. One firm is accused of having raised its prices from 50% to 400%, depending on the item, in the past four months...
...looked like a young man-with his pink face and shiny black hair-speaking to a late date. As he talked, his fingers riffled through a sheaf of unanswered telephone slips, and every so often he rolled one up and tossed it across the room at a nearby wastebasket...