Word: dump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Court Justice Frank Licht, 52, countered with a proposed investment tax, and that turned the trick. Babcock opted for a sales tax with no exemption for ranch machinery. "Pay More? What For?" was the slogan that Montana's tough, three-term attorney general, Forrest H. Anderson, 55, used to dump Babcock?and it reflected the voters' mood in at least nine of the state elections. Arkansas' Winthrop Rockefeller, seeking a second term, nearly met a similar fate, but ultimately edged Democrat Marion Crank...
Even hecklers make their way into the film, shouting "Dump the Hump," as the candidate tries to speak. A younger man encountered the same problem, the sound track says, and there is Teddy Kennedy facing a sea of angry chanting faces at the Common. There's a quick cut to Humphrey who has just the right expression--not angry, but troubled, determined to set communications aright if only given the chance...
...front of City Hall, 2,000 picketing policemen yelled "Blue power!" and carried signs exhorting "Dump Lindsay" and "We Want Daley." Hundreds more paraded in front of 20 of the city's 79 precinct stations. Until their union ended the practice at week's end, as many as 3,000 men, one-fifth of the force scheduled for duty, reported "sick" each day with a fictitious strain of Asian flu. Cops on duty watched benignly as motorists left their cars in bus stops and no-parking zones. Minor complaints were simply ignored, and traffic became badly snarled. Possibly...
Instant Losses. When the word got out, the speculators tried to dump the old MFCs they were holding. The black-market price dropped to 50 piastres by midafternoon. As the market crashed, money-changers along Saigon's Tu Do Street suffered instant losses that ran as high...
Looting was reported as darkness fell over Grosvenor Square, which was left looking like a garbage dump under piles of torn pamphlets and banners...