Word: dump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UMASS, BOSTON. The University of Massachusetts at Boston has a campus dug out of a harborside dump site and faces ferocious competition for students and faculty; some 55 other nearby colleges and universities, most of them private and including Harvard and M.I.T., tend to gobble up any good academic body...
...reputation as a fun-in-the-sun country club, President Thaddeus Seymour ordered studies of what ailed the place and how it might be cured. The studies concluded that small was good, and the best way for Rollins to upgrade was to build on strong points and dump weak departments...
...times, the war appears to be waged with hydraulics rather than firepower. The Iranians flood the low areas to bog down Iraqi tanks and heavy equipment. The Iraqis use earthmoving vehicles and hundreds of dump trucks to fill in the soggy earth. Despite sustained Iraqi artillery barrages, the Iranians have been aided by heavy rains, which have made it impossible for the Iraqi air force to home in on their positions...
...three friends upstairs, although their sentences were less harsh, is even more disturbing to me. They were all put on disciplinary probation, placing a permanent mar on their record. For what? They "pennied" out our door so that we could not open it, and stood by ready to dump water on us when we managed to get out. Friendly and fun, as before. Yet the Ad Board found that this action was sufficiently dangerous to deserve probation for all involved. Had we urgently needed to get out, they were right there, ready to open the door. They didn't leave...
...just beginning to relax and enjoy my drink when the plane lurched violently up and to the right, causing the man next to me to dump his Bloody Mary in my lap. I did not have time to scream or react in any way before the plane jerked down to the left, causing a stewardess to fall across the row of seats in front...