Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's daily schedule of appointments is usually pretty dull: a conveyor belt of officials and politicians who pass through his office at intervals between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. and dump their problems and requests on his desk. One day last week President Eisenhower got a welcome surprise when Lynda Widerberg, a pretty blonde in a soft blue organdy dress, walked into his office and announced, "I was going to kiss...
...across the wasteland of Dienbienphu. A shroud of gunsmoke lifted from the dips and hollows where the French Union garrison had died. In the stillness, there was only a muffled tramp! tramp! tramp! as the worn-out prisoners moved north, or a sudden, shuddering thump as an ammunition dump went off, or a dull buzz in the sky where the French C475 were keeping their death watch. It was a graveyard world down there, the French pilots reported, a tornup world of broken stones and cluttered bunkers, while around it the jungle would soon regain its ancient inscrutability...
...kinescope for last week's show when it was discovered that nine valuable museum pieces had vanished from the studios of station WCAU-TV. The articles-a bronze spearhead, a Balinese wood carving, a bronze Indian antelope and some African sculpture-were recovered from a city dump six miles away. Said the trash remover: "I looked over the things after they'd been brought back. They still looked like junk...
...expansion of domestic mineral and metal products beyond normal needs by guaranteeing a market for much of the extra output. The guarantees served their purpose. But when demand slacked off and prices fell, the Administration had to buy up the surplus. It either had to raise stockpile limits or dump excess metals on a shaky market...
Despite the runaway defeat, forward harry sacks managed to dump in eight points, and break the unofficial all-time Crimson season scoring record...