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Word: dump (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tryon chose to tell Lady's secret story, and as time went by he sure was a burden on her and the rest of us. Always digging into her closets and chifforobes, eavesdropping and peeking into folks' windows. More than a few of us wanted to dump him in our picturesque river, but he had Mr. Tryon's license to snoop so we couldn't lay a hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tourist Trap | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...clubhouse, a beautiful old wood building, was situated on Bird Island in between the Niagara River and the Black Rock canal about a half mile from where the Peace Bridge ran over into Canada. A half mile in the other direction was Buffalo's sewage treatment plant and city dump, Squaw Island. We used to have to run laps around the giant sewage treatment tanks, and sometimes we'd even run through the dump. The air was rotten on the leeward side of the island, but on the river side, the winds off the water would clear the stink...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Unruly Comments | 11/1/1974 | See Source »

...weeks earlier, the first (and unauthorized) outdoor show had abruptly ended when bulldozers, dump trucks and water wagons literally drove the artists underground by churning their works into the mud (TIME Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: The Russian Woodstock | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...served as a White House Fellow, working eventually on Johnson's personal staff. During that year, she attracted considerable publicity when the New Republic published an article she wrote supporting the growing "Dump Johnson" movement...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: Government Dept. Votes To Tenure Doris Kearns | 10/12/1974 | See Source »

...Ivanov (the Russian equivalent of John Doe) announced that he was leading a group of volunteer workers to turn the site into a "park of culture." At a signal from Ivan, the burly "volunteers" began grabbing paintings, ripping canvas and splintering frames. At another signal, several handy bulldozers and dump trucks roared to the site and began churning the art works into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Art v. Politics | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

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