Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat in its football headlines, found 32 ways of avoiding it: Blast, batters, murder, pastes, whip, crush, wreck, jolt, outscraps, spanks, rolls over, romps over, upsets, rout, toy, dump, bows to, tumbles, drops, trip, tops, sinks, buries, belts, wallops, wins, blanks, licks, trounces, subdues, turns back, edges...
...professor works in a cluttered laboratory with a view of a garbage dump and its swarming rat and mouse population. The room is aflutter with canaries, which roost on the rungs of his chair and scatter when he moves. At night, while the professor works, the mice steal out of holes. Their feet patter like rain on the zinc-covered tables, and when one of them chews a seed stolen from the canaries, it makes, says the professor, "a very delicate noise." Cockroaches fade like ghosts in & out of cracks. The birds crane their necks and peer...
Coast to Coast. But how sure was "sure?" Was there, at this last frantic moment, a chance to dump Harry Truman? After all, of the six other U.S. Presidents who reached the White House through the death of their predecessors, four had been unceremoniously dropped by their own party as soon as their terms were up. Ten days before the convention would open, a hastily formed coalition to stop Harry Truman came into being...
Into the Moat. The fire finally drove us into the walled, moated compound of the old palace, which now houses government offices. Across the moat an Army gasoline dump went up, shooting gasoline barrels a thousand feet into the air to start new fires wherever they landed. The palace wall, which in its three centuries had withstood American bombs as well as earthquakes, toppled into the moat...
...still, Brideshead was the first of Waugh's novels to become a U.S. bestseller. His fans had reluctantly winked at the fact that he is a conservative and a Roman Catholic convert. But popular? No literary cult can tolerate popularity in its prey. The boys were preparing to dump Evelyn...