Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alternative Actions. Dump-Johnson movements were forming in scores of cities, aiming at blocking his renomination or at least embarrassing him with strong anti-L.B.J. showings in the primaries. In California, the names of such entertainers as Actor Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and Comedian Dick Van Dyke appeared on the letterhead of the newly formed Dissenting Democrats. New York's fractious reform Democrats were seeking to run slates of anti-Johnson delegates in next June's primary. In Washington, the Conference of Concerned Democrats was preparing to challenge him. In Pittsburgh, supporters of New York...
...residents went on a rampage, looting and wrecking businesses owned or managed by Ibos. Many Ibo civilians were handed over to northern soldiers, who competed with each other for the fun of shooting them. Hundreds of Ibo bodies, many stripped and shot full of holes, were scooped into dump trucks and carted off to common graves or to the nearby Benin River. Others were left to rot in the blistering...
...plays a swinging nun whose starchy cornet launches her airborne in the wind cur rents around her Puerto Rican convent. Naturally, her antics appall the stern, stereotyped mother superior, but Sister Sally manages endless good works and bad gags, such as a crash landing in an Army garbage dump...
...merger must be cleared by the Civil Aeronautics Board. That should be a snap. The CAB has long been anxious to dump the heavy Government subsidies ($54 million this year) needed to keep the feeders in the air. Henry & Co. promise to take an immediate 10% cut in their total $10 million a year handout, and expect to be carrying the full load in three to five years...
Meanwhile near Granite Park Chalet, another grizzly slipped like a wraith upon a camp site pitched near a garbage dump purposely baited so that tourists could get a close look at the bears. The grizzly alternately mauled Julie Helgeson, also 19, and her companion, who kept still through the agony of two attacks and thus saved himself. Bitten on the shoulder, legs and buttocks, he heard the girl being dragged away, screaming so loudly that other campers at the chalet heard her anguished cries. After the survivors told their horrifying tales, two grizzlies were quickly slain before the evident killers...