Word: dumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calm. Then six minutes after the trouble began, another engine-No. 4-choked to a stop. With both outboard engines out of commission, Captain Ogg knew for certain now that he could not make the 1,000 miles to San Francisco-that he would have to ditch. Rather than dump gas and risk a night landing, he decided to wait till daylight and let the plane exhaust its heavy fuel load. He so notified the Coast Guard weather-watch cutter, Pontchartrain, some comfortable ten miles to the west. Pontchartrain's skipper, Commander William K. Earle, radioed the best course...
...Substantial Dispute." Finally, President Goldenson's dump-Kintner campaign won over 13 of the 17 directors on the company's board, which is heavy with Paramount men. Kintner sent a cold letter of resignation to "Dear Mr. Goldenson," stating that "We are in substantial dispute concerning policies relating to the organization and operation of ABC." Goldenson then personally took charge of ABC, promised to find a new president later...
...centralized and domineering type you seem to advocate. The President does not use the same methods as Franklin D. Roosevelt used to carry out his program. Mr. Eisenhower, for example, would never go down to Georgia, as Roosevelt did, and tell the people of that state that they should "dump" Senator George, because he refused to obey F.D.R. and pack the Supreme Court. Mr. Eisenhower believes in trying to convince Congressional leaders of the wisdom of his proposed legislation, but he refuses to pass that legislation either through intimidation, favor-giving, or any form of coercion. It is true that...
...soldier's only surviving name is "Old Cock," and his last surviving grip on Britain's economy is a job as curator of a rubbish dump in London's bombed-out East End. Slightly addled but still marvelously eloquent after his life in the trenches, Old Cock has one friend, known only as "Arp" (from the initials on his Air Raid Precautions uniform jacket). A bomb had deprived Arp of everything -house, family, name, memory and speech. But Old Cock talks enough for two-his language flows like pig's ear in a boozer on Saturday...
...novel's plot concerns Old Cock's attempts to hold on to his job and to keep Arp secure in his Nissen hut, located on the edge of the garbage dump. Among his adversaries are not only the city authorities and the garbage men (who have no respect for a well-conducted dump), but a film company run by a madly implausible American operator named Claygate Corst. Though Corst doesn't have "enough do-re-mi in his pocket to acquire a second-hand mouse-trap," he takes over the decayed movie studios next to the dump...