Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite a voice, even then. "Sakes alive, you could hear him crying three blocks away," recalls an uncle. "And when we were out riding in the buggy, Grandfather Fulton used to say, 'If you don't stop that crying I'm going to dump you out in the tumble-weeds...
...true." But, in its unrelieved gloom and its total sociological despair, The Young and the Damned sometimes seems as one-dimensional and as far short of the truth as a lurid propaganda poster. Typical sequence: the body of a murdered boy being carted on muleback to a public garbage dump while his mother unknowingly passes...
...place might have looked like a native collection of huts-except that U.S. air maps showed no village on the site, certainly not one that covered four square miles. Actually it was a big Communist supply dump, 30 miles northwest of the Panmunjom truce site. The Reds tried their best to disguise it by covering the boxes, barrels and bags with thatching that looked like roofs. A month ago, U.S. reconnaissance pilots spotted the dump for what it was. But the airmen waited while it grew into one of the lushest supply targets in North Korea...
Result: one supply dump a mass of black and shredded ruins. It was a good day's work, but U.N. commanders believe that in other and better concealed places the Reds in recent months have been able to pile up far more supplies than they had when they launched their two big offensives in April and May a year...
...HAVEN, March 8--Yale's hot-and-cold basketball team defeated the Crimson, 71 to 65, Saturday night to dump the losers for good into last place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League. The Elis combined a fast-breaking offense with almost complete control of the defensive boards, but the Crimson demonstrated an ability to score frequently, which may give Yale some trouble in the return game next Saturday...