Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combat the drop? The test came at a crucial time for an Administration determined to balance the budget and get government out of business. With the Korean war ended, huge cuts in defense spending were due. Farm income had been falling for two years, and the Administration intended to dump the rigid-support prices that had lessened the slide but had also created history's most gigantic pile of food surpluses. On top of that, after years of peak production, many an economist was sure that...
...particularly dissatisfied with the building's shortcomings. One of the annoying inconveniences for patients is to arrive on a busy afternoon when only standing room is available. The crowded conditions in turn block the passage of nurses carrying supplies. Other means of communication include an antiquated dump-waiter that carries messages form floor to floor...
...leave, he never stops polishing his passes. "He's slim (6 ft., 177 lbs.) but well-proportioned," says Coach Stuart Holcomb, "ideal for a T-quarterback. He's the most unusual boy I've ever seen. He can throw anything: fast, slow, long, short, lobs, bullets, dump passes; take your choice...
...sets of air holes. A hose from a valve near the pilot's navel hooks the suit into the plane's air-conditioning system, and cooled air pours through small holes around his body. Warmed and spent, it escapes through larger holes and a set of dump valves...
Things get going in Desert Hole, N. Mex. (elevation 1 ft.), where Jerry is the flag-stop-station attendant and Dean is what barely passes for an M.D. One day Jerry, stranded in the desert, spots a used-car dump and goes helling home in a rod that is hotter than he knows-a car used to test the effects of radiation in an atomic explosion at nearby Los Alamos and still labeled "Radioactive." Actually, the contamination has worn off. but when Jerry sees the label he collapses...