Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been receiving TIME-readers' contributions toward a fund for repairing the damage. Some had given money to Presbyterian Ye when TIME first told about his efforts to organize his first parish in 1948 among the swarms of poor children living in packing cases in Seoul's city dump. Others, hearing about him for the first time, wanted to help...
...Student Laundry Association, in eye-blearing competitions that often demand 70 hours a week. The word "heel" perhaps refers to that part of the clothing most evident as the heeler hustles down streets selling ads, rushes through New Haven collecting bills, and bends over to swab floors and dump trash buckets. Or, as one heeler suggested last week, it may derive from a dog's heeling...
...issues of Feb. 16, 1948 (Religion) and May 24, 1948 (Publisher's Letter), TIME told the story of Ye Yun-Ho, a young Korean seminarian who was sketching among a jumble of packing cases on Seoul's city dump when he discovered that there were homeless children living in them. Presbyterian Ye Yun-Ho moved in among the packing cases, began to organize his first parish among the swarms of ragged dead-end kids of Seoul...
Through an interpreter of indifferent fluency, Colonel Melchior advised the new councilmen to set up municipal police, a rice distribution system and a weapons dump to take care of the thousands of arms abandoned by the retreating Communists. The councilmen clearly had no idea of what they were supposed to do or how to do it. One of the colonel's aides smiled wanly and said, "It's the same story all over again. We just don't have properly trained people. If we had just six Americans who could speak fluent Korean we could make something...
...breeding ground for mosquitoes. From the beginning, Dr. Bishop was convinced that the best way to fight mosquitoes was to raise and lower the water level in the reservoirs periodically. The plan worked, hit no snag until World War II's power shortage, when an engineer objected to dumping precious water. The Authority's top brass settled the dispute with one brief order: "Dump water any time Bishop tells you to." A lot of water has gone over the dam since then...