Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Order to Shoot. The case began at an Air Force bomb dump in Taegu in September 1952. One night. Toth was on duty as sergeant of the guard. As he told the story later: "A gook who was drunk came into the area. The guard was on duty with a dog, and he hollered twice to the gook to halt, and when the gook didn't stop, he tried to get the dog to stop him, [but] the dog wouldn't attack. Then the guard fired two shots. These shots woke me, and I went to the area...
From an article on "The Fetish of Atomic Secrecy," by Paul Block Jr., publisher of the Toledo Blade, in the August Harper's: "But if men within the atomic program . . . are trying to hurdle the secrecy wall in this manner and dump some of their problems in the public's lap, they are merely taking a leaf from the military's book...
...Desert Rats is at its best when it ditches its contrived plot and concentrates on hard-hitting scenes of desert warfare pieced out with real newsreel shots (e.g., a Commando raid on a Nazi ammunition dump, Rommel's tanks attacking under cover of a sandstorm). Unusual linguistic touch: Actor Mason, who spoke flawless English as Rommel in The Desert Fox, this time affects a rich Teutonic accent...
...Garden State" of New Jersey (pronounced Goddan State of New J-eh-sey) boasts some of the most remarkably unsylvan areas east of the city dump at Gary, Ind. Its smoke-hung Hudson shore is littered, mile on dreary mile, with dingy factories, junkyards, piers, abattoirs, disconsolate old houses and drafty barrooms. When the wind is right, the indescribable perfume of some of the world's most thoroughly fermented tidal flats profanes the air. Jersey politics-a hatchery for grasping bosses-rests in this setting as comfortably as a bloated grapefruit floating in a sump...
Under the new terms, U.S. subsidies will be cut to 31? a bushel-still painful enough to raise howls in the Senate, which must ratify the pact. But finding a market for the U.S. wheat surplus might well be even more costly without any agreement, since other countries might dump wheat at prices far below the proposed floor prices...