Word: dump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...north, a new high school, clarion of the New Learning, expression of the finest in the Modern Temper. Over the entire scene hangs a dark cloud of necessity, the Antithesis of the twentieth century Synthesis, the bane of the American Spirit--Concord is without a garbage dump...
...some operation or other. This has gone on so long that his body has become one big lump of drugs. The ultimate treatment for a septic part of the body is amputation, and, as many patches on Eisenhower's body will eventually end him up on the city dump, so will the imperialist struggle definitely fall into the abyss...
...Belleau Woods?" He points out at the dump. "Belleau Woods was a little forest about the size of this place. We hacked at each other for three weeks in that little forest. All the trees got shot up and burnt. It looked like a field of burnt telephone poles. About eight thousand Marines got killed...
...course that trench fighting is way out of date now. But it was a stinking business: trench-foot, wet, trenchmouth, lice, mud, flu. I remember we used to open our tins of food and they'd be all blown up with gas and poison." He looks out over the dump silently, gazing...
...This dump is an old clay pit," he says. "Used to be a brick company over on the other side. Moved up to New Hampshire. You know it's going to take twenty-five years to fill this up. That's what they tell me. Twenty-five years of dumping. I won't be around...