Word: dump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he got out of law school, Wallace could not afford to set up a law practice. He collected 1,000 coat hangers, sold them and his old clothes, lived on the meager proceeds until he got a job - driving a dump truck. He was still piloting the truck at 23, when he met a clerk in a dime store named Lurleen Burns, 16. They were married in May 1943 and now have four children...
...Sandbox, a short play which Albee wrote in memory of his grandmother, is a burlesque of the death ritual. Mommy and Daddy dump Grandma in a sandbox and await her death while a musician plays a guitar and a muscular young man performs calisthenics behind the sandbox. A sense of futility and emptiness pervades the play. We are made conscious of the play as an art form and the theater as a building: Mommy shouts into the wings at the musician, "You-out there! You can come in now"; and later, after an off-stage rumble puzzles Daddy, Mommy explains...
...arrested most of them peaceably and drove them to district stations in waiting school buses. But some demonstrators sat down on the ground and refused to budge; they were hauled off bodily. The white crowd of some 1,000 inside the park turned mean, and there were shouts of "Dump 'em in the bay," "Black nigger, white nigger," "Castrate 'em" and "Send 'em to the zoo." But the police, in firm control, prevented actual violence...
...State Chairman Robert Forsythe plained the dragmatic descent in the Yorker's populalarity: "It was the marriage. That -meant another home . . . YOU know, this guy quite a hero o to a lot of Peo Said California Republican Asse Leader Charleses Conrad: "When you married to a woman for years dump her a head later take I other woman v who has dump & lt; band, it's certainly going to effect." In Long Island, c Rockefeller territory, Republician governor John Chafee said, " there are small children of hers involved is extremely unfortunate." Added Kent Shearer, energetic Young Republican leader in Utah...
...United Dye board, which controlled 90,000 of the 152,000 shares outstanding, then approved an ingenious Guterma plot to print thousands of additional shares and dump them on the public-at a profit. First it proposed a merger with little-known and profitless Handridge Oil Corp., which was controlled by Chairman Guterma and Las Vegas Gamblers Samuel Garfield and Irving Pasternak. Terms: 575,000 new shares of United Dye, worth $18 million, for 575,000 shares of Handridge, whose assets had been bought from Texas Wheeler-Dealers John and Clint Murchison Jr. for a mere $519,000. Remarkably, this...