Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sheer desperation, the Administration plans to go to Congress soon, dump the problem squarely in its lap, request the right to barter surplus goods abroad for new embassy sites, landing rights for civil aviation (which the U.S. has got free by reciprocal agreements) and scholarships in foreign universities for U.S. students...
...curled sleepily beneath his desk. It pleased the professor to hear students in the corridors outside shouting boisterous greetings as they recognized old friends back for another term. Professor Parenton himself did not recognize a single face-he could not see any. An exploding ammunition dump in far off New Caledonia had left him blind...
Seeking escape by the only likely-looking "exit," he pops through a little side door. An electric shock tickles his feet. He bolts up a ramp to a death chamber where electric contacts finish him off and dump his body into a wire basket. Meanwhile, the trap resets itself for another victim. The whole cycle takes about three minutes...
...Federal Works Agency, and the nation's contractors and real estate men, were just as grimly determined to dump L-41, scrap any other ceiling plan. Said they: 1) L41 is retarding normal building activity just when it is most needed; 2) the sooner the building industry gets going, the sooner it can hire the four to eight million workers it will need; 3) materials and labor will be so plentiful by the time the building boom gets under way next spring that competitive production alone will hold prices down. The whole price problem was of such prime importance...
...moan as the radio picked up a San Francisco announcer shouting: "I hope all you boys out there are as happy as we are at this moment. People are yelling and screaming, and whistles are blowing." Outbound, the crew prayed for a message that never came, ordering them to dump their bombs into the sea and return to base. They roared in over blacked-out Honshu, weathered the flak of fire-bombed Kumagaya...