Word: dump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...losses did not deter American bombers. Swooping in low, they blasted eight oil dumps and an assortment of bridges, trucks, trains and barges in 702 separate missions over North Viet Nam. Most spectacular strikes were against the cratered ruins of a bombed-out North Vietnamese army camp at Badon, 75 miles north of the 17th parallel. For six successive days Air Force F-4C Phantoms dumped new bombs into the craters-which exploded into towering columns of greasy black smoke. Looking for hiding places for his remaining petroleum supplies, Uncle Ho had turned the camp into an oil dump...
With the Q4, Cunard hopes to dump its old-tub, cold-mutton reputation and start filling as many cabins as the Italian and French lines fill on their slick new vessels. The Q4 will be commissioned in 1968, but, says Sir Basil, "Cunard line's passenger service must be paying its own way by that time...
...looking at the oil dump bombings is to see them as part of an Administration effort to quelch anti-war campaigns. Up until several weeks ago the State Department was daily informing reporters that Hanoi banked on U.S. public opinion to win the war for them. Now through the bombings the situation has reversed. North Vietnamese morale is said to be sagging, and Americans are asked to wait until it collapses...
...resort to the "technicality" of running his wife for Governor in the Democratic primary. A pleasant, ingenuous mother of four, she had married George in 1943 when she was a 16-year-old dime-store clerk and he was a 23-year-old law-school graduate driving a dump truck. Until Wallace made her a candidate, Lurleen had been a bashful Statehouse homebody-the role to which she would like to revert...
...Harvard students beware! Does your room look like a dump? Are empty beer cans forcing you cut? CLEAN may have its eye on you. You may be the next victim