Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tack. With the sense of crisis gone, maneuvering in the Senate took a new tack. Senator Bob Taft wanted a tough, omnibus bill he could dump as a single package on Harry Truman's desk. If the President vetoed it, that would be all right with Bob Taft. He knew what he wanted and he was all for putting Harry Truman on the spot. Meanwhile, Democrats moved heaven & earth to have the bill split up, and thus give the President a chance to sit squarely on the fence. Truman could then court labor's support by killing...
...heard of when he proposed that an 80-ft. statue of Winston Churchill, with a beacon in the form of a lighted cigar, be erected at Dover (TIME, July 29). When Donor Davis heard of the mixed reception awaiting his rock in New York, he promptly ordered workmen to dump it off its trailer truck (see cut). It is now resting in a field near Yarmouth, awaiting a decision from Secretary General Trygve...
...Blue Network," mused dapper, cinnamon-blond Mark Woods, tweaking his buttonhole carnation, "was a dump...
...Workshop had to resort to "hiring a hall" after the University had decided to dump 400 folding chairs in the very spot where "Saint Joan" was taking shape After searching every nearby broom closet for free space, the group finally brought its wigs and grease paint to the Somerset...
...rigidly policed confines of his own state, and economic sanctions are useless on a country as wealthy as Argentina. There remains only the necessity for halting Argentine encroachment by aiding the unproductive states that come under Peron's thumb through their economic dependence. If American farmers can afford to dump leads of potatoes on the ground to protect the market, then they can also supply badly needed foodstuffs for Bolivian miners. A program of adding the economically weak countries of South America to the list of nations benefitting by American food would supply the incentive for vigorous opposition...