Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortresslike, claustrophobic public square featuring such darkly symbolic places as a luxury hotel, a flophouse, a brothel, a pawnshop, and such darkly symbolic figures as a callous worldling who spits on common humanity, Storm-Trooperish policemen who cudgel it, street cleaners who cart its bodies off to the city dump. Around an arriving young American prizefighter with a bad heart flow loan sharks, plutocrats, cooch dancers, madams, homosexuals, a Casanova on his uppers, a Camille who herself must buy love, a Lord Byron who escapes to Greece for an ideal, a Don Quixote who offers the escape of illusions...
...fund, flew to Cincinnati to see Eisenhower. He boarded the campaign train one night unseen by the press, spent several hours with Eisenhower, advised him to stick with Dick Nixon (although some of Nixon's friends were mistakenly convinced at the time that Brownell had advised Ike to dump Nixon). Before dawn, he was flying back to New York, thinking through some advice to Nixon on his telecast. Brownell proposed the audit and legal study of the fund, which were highly effective in making Nixon's case...
...marching till his feet blistered, from writing whoppers as a "People's Correspondent" for the New China News Agency, to a minor post with the Ministry of Propaganda - while inwardly he fought to keep Mao Tse-tung and gang from using his brain as a Marxist sewage disposal dump...
...dining halls much money. When a student signs off board, the kitchen knows it has one less mouth to prepare for. When he cannot, they must judge their quantities on instinct. With this element of certainty gone, even larger quantities of food will find their way to the Cambridge dump than at present...
...last September to register his nine-year-old daughter Shelley for the fall term. He was, he recalls, "shocked to tears." He promptly told New York City's board of education that he "would rot in jail myself first . . . before I would send my only child to that dump." Myers and his wife, who holds a New York state teacher's certificate, began tutoring Shelley at home in her prescribed subjects. Shelley's five hours of "classes" are held on every day that P.S. 19 is in session. Mrs. Myers claims her truant daughter...