Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense. His decision to dump the problem into the lap of the United Nations (TIME, Feb. 24) was not the only measure of the failure. He would propose no solution to the U.N. He had no new policy to offer for peace in Palestine pending the U.N.'s action (it will not take the case until September; a decision may be more than a year away). And he would make no promise of an increase in Jewish immigration to the Holy Land (now 1,500 a month), the sorest point of all with Zionists...
...March, Todd's Nationalist peasant workers could dump enough rock-fill into the new dikes to hold the diverted river's flow. If work stopped, however, Todd's uncompleted dikes might be washed out in the June floods. UNRRA wrung its hands and wondered which was worse: to risk disastrous floods by "China's Sorrow" or to risk hurting the Communist military position and thus sully UNRRA's spotless record of neutrality...
This report, a stern rebuke to the medical profession, was delivered last week by a committee of the New York Academy of Medicine. The survey covered only New York City. But other cities are apt to be worse; most dump alcoholics in jail...
...Cormaud, who "does" the rue des Ecoles and the rue Monge, defend chiffonage. Said Cormaud: "It's those fly-by-nights who cause all the trouble. They have no sense of professional standards. Instead of emptying each can carefully on a burlap sack to sort it out, they dump the garbage helter-skelter on the sidewalk. That way they give the profession a bad name...
...client faith and courage-but it generally kills the designer's value. . . . Fear, sex, maternity, snobbism, such are the themes of 90% of advertising that daily haunt our eyes. Hitting below the belt, appealing to our fears, and undermining our ideals-a vortex of banalities, a rubbish dump of overstatement...