Word: dump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speculators were hurt more by Clarkson's loss on Saturday than by the Big Red's defeat in the consolation game. "I made plans to dump my tickets on Clarkson and felt okay at the Garden." one Cornell student said. "But when I heard about B. U. going. I knew I was back in the market again...
...York Democrat, who initiated the Dump Johnson movement in 1968 but was defeated last November in his bid for a second House term when his Long Island district was gerrymandered, reminded an audience of under 60 in Lowell Lecture Hall that the 1972 struggle will be easier than that of 1968 for two reasons...
...Venice is symptomatic of a widespread malaise: much of Italy has become an environmental disaster area. About 85% of the country's 5,000-mile shoreline is polluted by oil spills and industrial wastes, plus the vinyl bags in which Italians wrap their garbage and then blithely dump it, littering the land and the once lovely beaches. Moreover, 80% of Italy's coastal cities have no sewage-treatment facilities. Even Milan, Italy's second largest city, has no such plant. Most wastes-industrial as well as human-are simply dumped into local rivers, which then strew filth...
Though murmurings are growing louder that Nixon will dump Agnew from the Republican ticket in 1972, such predictions are premature. By tradition, the vice presidency is a condition of insecurity-as Nixon himself knows, having faced the same prospect himself before the 1956 election. Whether Agnew joins the 1972 ticket will depend upon Nixon's political needs at the time. Actually, some of Agnew's friends think that he might even leave office without much resistance. One evening during last fall's campaign, he told an intimate: "I might just get out and open...
...Germans climbed the other, placed a noose around the Frenchman's neck, and pulled it tight. Then the other SS man yanked away the victim's ladder. In all, 99 Frenchmen, aged 17 to 45, were hanged. Their bodies were buried in the town garbage dump...