Word: dump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon a few weeks earlier...now switched. "Because this man," said the Reverend Mr. King Senior, "was willing to wipe the tears from my daughter (in-law's) eyes. I've got a suitcase of votes, and I'm going to take them to Mr. Kennedy and dump them in his lap."... When one reflects that Illinois was carried by only 9,000 votes and that 250,000 Negroes voted for Kennedy, that South Carolina was carried by 10,000 votes and that an estimated 40,000 Negroes voted for Kennedy, the candidate's instinctive decision must be ranked among...
...People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, held in the cathedral with the permission of New York's Episcopal Bishop Coadjutor, the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore Jr. A church should not be used for "partisan political gatherings," remonstrates the magazine in an editorial, citing the availability of "Dump Nixon" pamphlets at the rally. What is more, the magazine complains, the crowds smoked, left beer cans in the pews, and even included a man with slit pants who was "free to parade in the church with his bare bottom exposed...
Under the 1899 Rivers and Harbors Act, no industry or city can dump pollutants into navigable waterways unless it gets a "discharge permit" from the Federal Government. In late 1970 this old law became the keystone of President Nixon's program to clean up U.S. waterways. Last summer some 20,000 applications for permits were sent to Washington for approval...
...pipe is framed in wood and runs overhead on gateways that look like crude Japanese torii. The impenetrable ground also makes sanitation a problem. Although the U.S. Public Health Service has promised to help with sewers and a water system some time in the future, Barrow residents usually dump solid wastes -encased in the ubiquitous 55-gal. drums-near the Naval Lab. In the summer, however, the stench of open "honeybuckets" is almost unbearable...
...solution to the ecology problem is simple," Peseckis said recently. "It is to recognize property rights. Industrialists do not have the right to dump wastes on someone else's property. If they do so, they're using another's property without permission, which is an abrogation of libertarian principles...