Word: dump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of my visit, reconstruction was supposed to have been started, but the site was completely desolate, with only a few colored, smashed stones to indicate that a building of great beauty had once stood there. The spot was obviously being used as a town dump. Upon my return to the U.S., I wrote the Jewish Conference on War Claims about this great injustice. They replied that they would look into the matter...
With his personal prestige at stake, Nehru has campaigned vigorously for Menon. When local Congress leaders in North Bombay tried to dump Menon as a candidate, Nehru personally had the revolt squashed. Shortly thereafter, 26 Bombay Youth Congress workers resigned from the party, protesting that because of Menon's "pro-Communism, the future of the country is not safe." Nehru was infuriated, shouted in a speech before 200,000 people in North Bombay that the youth workers could "go to hell...
...cried the priests before they died. This was not the end; when all were dead, the savage troops grabbed knives and dismembered the bodies, gouging out the eyes and carving voodoo symbols on the corpses as well. When it was finally over, the students were forced to dump the remains in the nearby river...
...educator seconds Hero Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye, whose wry view of "Pencey Prep" echoes the language repeatedly used in advertising military academies. For military schools are widely scorned as something akin to reform schools with tuition-handy places for the rich or the divorced to dump incorrigible offspring. "Military schools are a symbol of the abdication of parental responsibility," scoffs one non-military headmaster...
Unfortunately, Author Lederer is a heat generator rather than a light spreader. Any of the 130,000-odd purchasers of A Nation of Sheep who take Lederer's case at face value must feel inclined to dump the U.S. Government into the Pacific and start over. Such invitations to despair are just what engender the rancorous ("We are betrayed") hysteria of the Birchites and other seekers of simple solutions to complicated problems...