Word: dump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twisting Hands. White's acerbic eye and listening ear allow no part of Australia's mores to go unrecorded. In Down at the Dump, he describes the funeral of the town tart with Gogolian rambunctiousness. Willy-wagtails by Moonlight is an equally authoritative (and equally comic) account of a dinner party of two couples. The dim hostess, Nora, "made a point of calling her husband's employees by first names, trying to make them part of a family which she alone, perhaps, would have liked to exist." Her more earthy guest, Eileen Wheeler, had been a school...
...sleazy, sullen chambermaids running amuck in Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress, throw fish at her daughter, uncork the wine vat, scrape rubbish off the floor and dump it into the master's soup. "What did you put in the closet?" asks one. "The chicken droppings," replies the sister...
...prosecution told it, Fein shot his bookmaker to death in October, 1963, to avoid paying off a $23,890 World Series bet on the New York Yankees, stuffed his body into a trunk, and persuaded a bosomy, redheaded prostitute named Gloria Kendal to dump the trunk in the Harlem River for him. Somehow, the body floated clear, and when it was discovered a month after the murder, Gloria phoned Fein in a snit. "Don't you ever watch TV?" she asked him. "Didn't you ever hear of cement...
...Should Say Not!" Gloria's two friends corroborated parts of her story but not all of it. Geri Boxer, who said she became friendly with Gloria because she is "accomplished in a lot of respects a college girl wouldn't be," said she helped dump the trunk but did not know what was in it. Broudy said Fein told him that someone else had shot the bookie...
...this point, Professor Labaree contends, colonial resentment of domineering imperial policies might have wilted and died. The crisis revived only when Parliament resolved to dump the tea of the ailing East India Company on colonial markets. Seizing on this pretext, a minority of determined patriots rekindled the excitement of 1767, made bolder and bolder claims of American rights, and threatened accomplices of the East India Company with mayhem. Finally, on the night of December 16, 1773, a group of "Mohawks" tossed 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor...