Word: squandering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unpremeditated Folly." In Britain, which only a fortnight ago had seen anti-Semitic riots, there were wide expressions of sympathy for the refugees. Commented the Manchester Guardian: "World opinion will be shocked. . . . The Government has not so much credit left in the world that it can afford to squander it in acts of unpremeditated folly." Added the News Chronicle: "British conduct ... is moving rapidly to the ultimate stage of lunacy. . . . No one but a fool would try to compel a Jew to go to Germany of all countries...
...real. But the victory cost heavily in moral prestige. Into the ashcan with the invalidated stamps went much public confidence in OPA. Housewives asked: Can Washington ever again be trusted to deal fairly with those who save? Do the rewards go to housewives who hoard the most food and squander the most stamps? Many a citizen, mindful of what happened to his red and blue stamps, began to look suspiciously at airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3, wondered if they should be spent at once on shoes -which will hereafter be rationed at less than two pairs a year...
Actually, the Political Action Committee (P.A.C.) was being given too much credit. John Costello was beaten largely by tough-minded Teamster Dave Beck's A. F. of L. machine, which makes the P.A.C. look like innocent little Baptist truants about to squander their collection money on ice cream sodas. (West Coast Teamster leaders study precinct records: any member who fails to vote loses his union membership, which means losing...
...characterization, the creators of Jeannie tackle a grey-haired comic cliché-The Innocent Abroad-and come up with the best light comedy of the year. Jeannie McLean, a sharp-chinned, homely-pretty Scottish country girl, 26 and single, decides before she buries herself in domestic service, to squander her father's "entire fortune" (a bequest of ?297-$1,188) on a trip to Vienna. She wants to hear The Blue Danube "played at the source." Aboard the Channel packet she meets a celluloid-collared washing-machine inventor from Yorkshire with plenty of British brass and some neolithic French...
...they now receive British Army pay (small compared with U.S. pay). General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, pleasantly housed with several other generals, has been seen lolling along in a native tonga (cart) toward a nearby village, where the captured officers are popular because they have so much money to squander. This situation is altogether proper and legal: Britain is merely observing the Geneva Convention, which 29 nations adopted in 1935 to govern the treatment of prisoners...