Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laid in a supply of it in advance, and turns a profit. Conversely, he often is shrewd enough to unload his supply of a stock before the market in it turns down. The worst thing he has to contend with is fear-the sudden frights that cause investors to dump stocks with little reason. Says Coleman: "Nobody ever got burned to death in a theater fire. They get trampled to death...
...narrow with a perfect shot every six minutes. On the northern outskirts of New York City (the real one), where big, white-ribbon highways trellis over swampy wastes, Freedomland opens next week. Billed as "the world's largest outdoor entertainment center," it rises out of a former garbage dump, is nothing less than a replica of the continental U.S.A., 833 yds. from parkway to shining parkway, with coconuts in Florida, corn in Iowa, and cash registers from Oregon to Maine...
...dirty old man (Welles) because he supports her illegitimate children. But now and then she likes a little excitement (Dillman) on the side. When the old man gets jealous, the young lovers strangle him, meat-saw the remains into portable pieces, and are caught when they try to dump the evidence at a construction site...
...intend to vote for Senator Kennedy, but I am nauseated by the malodorous fumes spreading from the dump fire ignited by men of whom Swift once said: ''We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another...
Allen's Touch. In 1944 Allen attended the Democratic Convention and was one of a handful of backroom movers and shakers who persuaded Roosevelt to dump Henry Wallace as Vice President and put Missouri's Senator Harry Truman on the ticket. During the campaign, Allen worked closely with Truman, added many a deft touch to his campaign speeches, and by inauguration day, he was a member of the innermost Truman Circle. When Truman became President, he rewarded Allen with a job as director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., but after a year Allen quit. He realized that...