Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...governor's triumph over the party pros, who were sure they could dump him, can be explained in two words -- sympathy and money...
...Polish Bison Brand Vodka [Oct. 14]? A Bog-Fog? Better a Yucca-Flats. Merely have at hand four quarts of vodka, 15 3-oz. bottles of maraschino cherries, ten mashed oranges, lemons and limes-plus rinds, 1 lb. of cane sugar, 10 lbs. of ice cubes, and proceed to dump the whole mess into a wastebasket. Stirring recommended...
...busy with preparations for his most ambitious foreign-policy move to date: the seven-nation Manila Conference of Asia's non-Communist allies, which opens next week. Marcos released $190,000 to patch Manila's perennially potholed roads, and the city throbbed to the passing of earth movers and dump trucks. Paintbrushes slapped and lawn mowers clattered up and down stately Roxas Boulevard as hotels and nightclubs indulged in a hasty face lifting. U.S. Presidential Press Secretary Bill D. Moyers bustled from airport to embassy to Malacanang Palace (the Filipino White House) making arrangements for everything from protocol dinners...
Garbage Trucks. All night long and into the morning the massacre went on. Then, tired but fulfilled, the Hausas drifted back to their homes and bar racks to get some breakfast and sleep. Municipal garbage trucks were sent out to collect the dead and dump them into mass graves outside the city. The death toll will never be known, but it was at least...
Solid, Seasoned Staff. Finding space for the columnists is one thing; filling the news hole is something else again. During the long strike, some of the Trib's best reporters found other work. The American Newspaper Guild's demand for strict seniority forced Conniff to dump some promising youngsters and keep some tired old hands. "We have a solid, seasoned staff," he says when what he means is that the paper is stuck with 40 reporters who are 60 or older. In the confusion of matching personnel demands, Conniff ended up with six more copyreaders than he needs...