Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around the world, beneath the sea and in the mountains, high-living Houston last week took a look under its garbage and found black gold. An independent driller, Trice Production Co., brought in a rich (140 bbls. daily) well from 8,000 ft. below the city dump, and gave it an appropriate label: "Houston City Dump...
...childe wonder of Republican politics. Long disappointed in his presidential passion, his daily feuds with such as Joe McCarthy grown pale and wan, Stassen, at 49, felt the need to fare forth in quest of new political ad ventures. Last week he fared forth. He urged that the G.O.P. dump Vice President Richard Nixon in favor of Massachusetts' Governor Christian A. Herter...
...Booby Trap. That afternoon, Childe Harold's anti-Nixon campaign blew up right in his face. He had walked into his own political booby trap. Long before Stassen brought his dump-Nixon move into the open, Nixon and Chairman Len Hall had learned what was up. Nixon himself called Herter to ask that Herter place Nixon in nomination at the Republican convention. Herter did not give an immediate answer. But after Stassen's first public statement. Herter was again asked to nominate Nixon. This time he agreed. In an instant Stassen became a manager without a candidate...
...graveyard, the blind girl finds social security. She also meets two human beings who, alone among New Hoosicers, seem wise and considerate: Old Repent, the tombstone cutter, and young Robber Jim, an illegitimate half-breed who inhabits the nearby city dump. When Lovey finds she can see again, and loves Jim at first sight, Jim knows instantly. With grandma's death, Lovey regains the capacity for grief. Outraged by her parents' glee during the sterile funeral service, Lovey tauntingly tells them she can see again ("Father, your hair is horrible"). Lovey's parents hardly listen...
...roll a manifestation of the insecurities of the age, added that "the effects of the music are more predominant in girls." Or perhaps it was that of the reader of the Denver Post who wrote: "This hooby doopy, oop-shoop, ootie ootie, boom boom de-addy boom, scoobledy goobledy dump-is trash...