Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visual humor provided by director Burt Shevelove brings nothing to nothing. Characters dump water on each other's heads and slam rifle butts on their toes. One endless bit revolves around a prostitute stumbling around with an arrow stuck between her tits. It's that kind of show...
...push in Chicago, where the Democratic cause had been staggered by police clubs the week before, Nixon received a warm reception from huge noontime crowds in the Loop. During his 45-minute ride through the heart of the city, confetti poured from office buildings. Signs screamed VIVA NIXON and DUMP HUMP-NIXON'S THE ONE. People jumped through police lines to shake the candidate's hand. While the excitement hardly matched a Robert Kennedy happening, Nixon, like Kennedy before him, suffered a scratched wrist and lost a cuff link to eager grasps...
...average rate of 40 patients a day. Most practitioners consider 20 patients a day a heavy load. "When you see 40," says Smith, "you obviously can't dispense the kind of medical care that you'd like to. To make things worse, white doctors dump Negro patients on black doctors-especially if they haven't any money, and most of them haven...
Invisible and Inaudible. The B-52s wheel in from bases in Thailand, on Guam, Okinawa and Taiwan to dump their huge loads. They fly so high that they are virtually invisible, and their bombs detonate on the ground only seconds after the faint whine of their engines is audible-and by then it is too late. They concentrate on areas of Communist pressure-as last week in the Central Highlands near the Cambodian border, where waves of B-52s attempted to break down Communist troop buildups. For a pilot's view of a raid, Robert Wildau of TIME...
...penchant for obfuscation, De Gaulle phased out Pompidou in such a manner that the import of the affair was open to varying interpretations. After national elections, the Premier is required by law to hand in his and his government's resignation. De Gaulle used the procedure to dump Pompidou, but then cast the situation in another light by including in his farewell letter an intriguing line: "Dear Friend, hold yourself in readiness to fulfill any mandate the nation may one day bestow upon...