Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour battle above the Russian rail center of Kursk, 80 mi. south of Orel, Russian fighters fought a 500-German-plane armada to a standstill, forcing the Luftwaffe to dump its bombs at random. German losses to Russian anti-aircraft fire and fighter planes were 162 planes; Russian plane losses...
...many hundreds of tip-&-run raids. The same day another coastal town was hit. England's Atlantic City, Brighton, had nearly a hundred raids. The Germans choose misty days and they swoop out of the clouds, sometimes with their engines switched off, spray the town with bullets, dump their bombs and are off before the ack-ack is effective...
...characterized many of the most enduring popular songs (Madelon, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, etc.). It begins by impressing its listeners as musical beer and sauerkraut, ends by becoming a habit-forming musical drug. With an ump-pah accompaniment, it is a march. Changed to ump-da-dump-dump, it becomes a tango. In either case, the strains are of a kind which easily attach themselves to romantic memories and the pathos of separation...
...young wife of an army officer who was forced to pay $50 a month rent for quarters next door to prostitutes, quarters from which Negroes had been evicted so that higher rents could be charged. From Beaumont, Tex. she wrote that the stink from the city's garbage dump "is so vile over the Pennsylvania yards that the whole shift has to be pulled off the ships, causing the loss of thousands of man-hours of work. If the wind changes, the people of Beaumont are nauseated and nearly choked...
...thing seemed fairly sure: just as Franklin Roosevelt had dumped John Nance Garner as a political liability in 1940, so is he likely to dump Henry Agard Wallace in 1944. Returning this week from an 11,000-mile good-will tour to South America, Henry Wallace may well find that the major remaining chore of his term will be to look for a new job. Practical Democrats took him in 1940 only at Franklin Roosevelt's insistence. Henry Wallace lost his own farm state of Iowa; by 1942 the whole farm belt was solidly Republican...