Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mouth was practically supersonic. "I am the greatest," he chattered. "I am the prettiest. I am so pretty that I can hardly stand to look at myself. I am the fastest. I am the fastest heavyweight that you ever did see. Next to me, Liston will look like a dump truck...
Meanwhile, as the Jownstairs began to empty out, transfusions of fresh blood poured in off the street. Two children in a red dump truck wove in and out of the forest of legs. A middle-aged businessman sat twiddling his thumbs as he stared off into space, waiting for his wife to emerge from the Darwinian struggle...
...Moses is Moses. This week, in the world's most glamorous ex-dump, feet were being picked up in double time to the tune of Richard Rodgers' official Fair Is Fair march to prove that when Robert Moses says there is going to be a world's fair in Flushing Meadow in 1964, there damn well will be a fair...
...month after nervous month, Elizabeth Taylor kept Eddie Fisher at arm's length as a kind of singing duck. It would never do to dump him, not while Richard Burton was still resisting. If Taylor had divorced Fisher and Burton had gone back to Sybil, Taylor would have lost ten-tenths of her pretty face. But if the affair had collapsed while both were still married, then it would have been just another office romance...
...Packing's processing went wrong. But the plant remains shut, and though only a few cans were ever infected with botulism, all of Washington Packing's stock was confiscated by the Government and summarily buried-in a well-publicized move-beneath ten tons of garbage in a dump next to San Francisco's Candlestick Park...