Word: dump
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Harry Truman's ascension to the Presidency was the result of a series of coincidences. He headed a routine Senate investigation concerning national defense preparedness and munitions industries that uncovered major scandals which catapulted him into national prominence. Thus when President Roosevelt found it necessary to dump Henry Wallace from the Democratic ticket in 1944, Truman emerged as a compromise choice for Vice-President. Three months after he took office, F.D.R.'s death placed Truman in the White House. Yet in spite of this accidental assumption of the office, many historians, such as Clinton Rossiter and Arthur M. Schlesinger...
While about 300 demonstrators rallied on the green about 100 yards from the front of the Harvard Club, another 100 stood across the street from the club, chanting "Impeach Nixon, dump Ford" and "Gerald Ford: You can't hide. You committed genocide...
When the Pittsburgh Corning Corporation closed its asbestos insulation plant in Tyler, Texas, two years ago, it did an unusually thorough job of cleaning up after itself. Some 60 workers spent a week scraping asbestos waste from machinery and depositing it in a nearby dump. Then another crew took over. Ceilings and walls were steam cleaned. Every piece of equipment in sight was scrubbed down; some machinery was disassembled and shipped to P.C.C.'s home office in Pittsburgh. What was left was cut up and buried. When the crew finished, all that remained of the plant were two dilapidated...
...winks at the common practice of scalping those tickets. For the recent Sugar Bowl, Alabama Split End Wayne Wheeler hoped to get $100 per seat. At Alabama, the custom is so established that there is an unwritten rule requiring players who still have tickets on Thursdays before games to dump them at any price, so that they can concentrate on practice...
...questioned KP&L's estimate of the sulfur content of the coal for the plant; and, KP&L's own estimate that the plant will burn 1600 tons of coal per hour, take and never return over one-third of the volume of water in the Kansas River, and dump 60,000 tons of sulfur dioxide into...