"I have to empty the wastebaskets, turn out all the lights," he said, "and while you're there the person is lying there in the open coffin.
Roy asked Magic Frank if there was anything he could do to help him, and Frank said he could empty the wastebaskets from the office and dump them into a garbage can in the alley.
The French Section de Statistique — the Army's intelligence service — had an agent within the German Embassy: a cleaning woman who every night emptied the wastebaskets of the military attaché, Lieutenant Colonel Maximilien von Schwarzkoppen, and brought the torn-up papers to her government.
Sanitation workers spent the day trying to clear piles of trash and to empty the overflowing wastebaskets to ease the smelly conditions that mounted during the blackout.
As the film tracks Philippa's movements, it also monitors the morning rounds of a janitor on the same floor who empties that wastebasket into the trash shortly after Philippa has left, then waits for an elevator with the trash.
What Reid noticed most of all, though, were the empty wastebaskets, the still-sharp, unused pencils, the uncluttered desktop.
A woman in her 60's, wearing a stiff-fabric vest with the logo of an office-cleaning company, stepped into the room to empty my wastebasket and collect Mountain Dew cans from the recycling bin.
He crumpled the empty sheet and tossed it into the wastebasket.
"The wastebasket should be emptied.
In time, Lucia eases up and, as Abel visits her space to empty her wastebasket and show how to open her window, the two become friendlier and even bond with each other against the writing-team's unconscious racist remarks.
