Word: dump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Investigation of the artifacts, including pieces of ale mugs, silverware and tobacco pipes, should reveal a great deal about student life 200 years ago, Davis said yesterday. One site in the Yard, located between Massachusetts and Harvard halls, is believed to be the old Cambridge dump...
Across the flat Midwest farm lands, electricity and telephone lines snapped like dry spaghetti. Hundreds of cattle froze to death, and dairy farmers were forced to dump oceans of milk they could not get to market. In Lake Michigan, two Coast Guard cutters were trapped by giant ice floes. A 220-mile-long ice jam closed the Missouri River from Atchison, Kans., to Blair, Neb., backing up water and causing flooding in some places...
...unpolluted Tombigbee will be turned into a series of small stagnant pools. Some 45,000 acres, rich with wildlife, fossils and Indian relics, will be inundated. Randall Grace, former executive director of the Tombigbee River Conservation Council, asserts that the project will "transform northeastern Mississippi into a huge garbage dump. The promoters say that it will turn the region into the Ruhr Valley of the South, without realizing how polluted the Ruhr...
...Houses of Parliament and the Tower of London. Only a few miles upriver are the meadows of Runnymede, where the barons extracted the Magna Carta from King John. The Thames is indeed England's Royal River, but it has not always been treated royally. Long a favorite garbage dump, the Thames' tidal waters near London had become so foul by the 17th century that James I threatened to move his court to Windsor. Then came two events that turned the river into what Victorians called a "monster soup": the Industrial Revolution and the closing of London...
...looters came into the store around 9:30 p.m. and began to dump merchandise onto the floor and throw it around the store, James L. Shiverdecker, manager of Store 24, said last night. Later they threw the cash register onto the floor and stole over $100, he added...