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Word: dumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certainly hope they don't dump the tickets on us as they did last week," he remarked...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Ticket Mix-up Leaves 50 Looking for Seats | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

With this depth of background, Rock n Roll appeals to all groups. Its lyrics sound the outcry of the suffering romantic, "I'm a Mississippi bullfrog sitting on a Harlem dump, so many girls I don't know which way to jump." With equal fervor, Rock n Roll sympathizes with the nihilistic element of the Cambridge community, "I gotta Flip Flop n Fly, and I don't care...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: "Flip Flop n Fly" | 10/6/1955 | See Source »

...that, it was nothing for Jean-Louis to pose as the G.I. over a telephone and order a room clerk to turn over his suitcases to a French friend, who would shortly call to pick them up. Jean-Louis would then collect the suitcases, drive to the river and dump them in. It pleased him to watch them float unopened downstream before sinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Revenge | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...rainbow-colored Dieseland, divers will splash into four feet of water in the world's biggest dump truck (50 tons), and the public will tramp around a host of diesel-propelled attractions ranging from an 85-ton atomic cannon to a 63-ft. shrimp boat. The star of the show: G.M.'s new, 10-car, 400-passenger Aerotrain, which is twice as light and less than half as expensive as conventional passenger cars. To make the diesel debut complete, the company has built a grandstand where 7,000 spectators can watch an hour-long musical (title: "More Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Diesel Dazzle | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...Deep Sleep. In Baltimore, Charles Brogdon, 57, was arrested for drunkenness after he went to sleep on a garbage heap, was covered with layers of crab shells and cabbage leaves, picked up by a mechanical scooper, dropped into a garbage truck, carted to the city dump, where, at long last, he woke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

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