Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Downing St. issued a statement last year that the Italians had threatened to dump captured British bombs on the Vatican if the R.A.F. raided Rome...
West of Matrûh we passed through the greatest dump of motorized equipment in the world, with the possible exception of Stalingrad. The edges of the road and the desert as far as we could see were strewn with wrecked German and Italian tanks, armored cars, motorcycles, lorries and staff cars. In between were tires of Jerry cars and munitions of all kinds from bullets to bombs, tools and helmets, and carcasses of beef...
...Another Indian city once removed monkeys by carts to a food dump miles away. When the monkeys had feasted at the dump, they raced away and caught the carts back to town...
...reception room of the unimpressive little plant in Alhambra, Calif. of Lights Incorporated, which manufactures lighting equipment for airports and airplanes. He turned to Managing Director Harry Swift Kimball, told him: "If anyone had ever told me that I'd walk out of the front door of that dump of yours with a million-dollar order in my hand I'd have figured he was crazy...
From June through September western winds dump great rains on Dakar and the adjacent Senegalese coast. Then the harmattan (from the French-Arabic for evil) starts to blow from off the scorching Sahara. By November Dakar's lush greenery begins to parch. The sky is so blue that it looks black. Roads are heavy with dust, but passable for military travelers...