Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dealer named Walter Andreas Hofer, stored the offering in the salt mine where the Allies found it. They found Hofer too, and clapped him in jail. For most of the first year of the occupation, Hofer spent his nights in the clink and his days in a Munich art dump, identifying loot. Hofer's filing-cabinet memory for paintings, and his willingness to remember, helped win freedom for him and restitution for Italy...
Author Adam suspected there might be a reason: "The standards which the BBC . . . has established in news may have something to do with this 'lingering pain'. It is enough that the pitch by the village dump is being disputed . . . that another medicine man has arrived . . . that his top hat and his line of talk are glossier, and that he nips in before those who have been there many a year, man and boy, have their samples unpacked...
...copy of the Daily worker in his already cold hand. True, a few shrewder individuals have been able to crash through to the inner regions, but it has only been after untold waiting and hair-breadth escapes from the rock-laden trucks that tear through Widener Gate to dump their loads elsewhere and race back to mash more book-carrying, hurrying, seersuckered miserables...
...strolled past Widener toward Wigglesworth gate, Vag uncovered the one spot of activity in the Yard. Ground was being cleared for the Lamont Library, and the power shovels and dump trucks were at work demolishing the green slope behind Houghton. Strange things were being done to the Dana-Palmer House. Vag watched the big shovels; only five scoops of the jagged-toothed box to fill the puny dump trucks so full that dirt spilled over their sides as they drove out the Widener gate...
Hoboken didn't like McFeely. He was tough, glum, nickel-pinching, semi-illiterate and vindictive. When he left the seat of a dump cart for politics, he cultivated Democratic Boss Paddy Griffin so obsequiously that he was nicknamed "Me Too Barney." But when Paddy got sick in 1925, McFeely had what he needed to grab Paddy's power: he controlled the police and fire departments and thus almost all Democratic campaign funds...