Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California and Hawaii. By the end of the week, it was McGovern who seemed to be wavering as he apparently tried to ditch Eagleton without actually informing his running mate directly. They would meet early this week in Washington. But McGovern made no effort to discourage his backers from dump-Eagleton talk, and he tried to enlist the press in getting the word to Eagleton. In stories based on conversations with him but transparently attributed only to "sources close to McGovern," he passed the word that Eagleton should take himself out of contention. Eagleton had damaged the ticket...
Corporate financial managers relay their wishes to professional currency dealers, who decide where to dump weak currencies, where to pick up strong ones, and at what price to buy or sell. The dealers are the real gnomes, but not many reside in Zurich. Most are found at commercial banks in London, Manhattan and Frankfurt, and some are in Tokyo, Sydney, San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...fact, complaining is enhanced by a touch of imagination. The late Saul Alinsky was a master of the technique. He had his minions dump garbage on the driveway of a Chicago alderman who had refused to support improved sanitation in the northwest district and deposited dead rats on the step of Chicago city hall to dramatize the infestation of the Woodlawn neighborhood. One Eddie Campos, a plasterer from Whittier, Calif. (Nixon's home town), bought him self a $10,300 Lincoln. The ignition fell out, the air conditioning failed, the front end waggled. One day Campos took the Lincoln...
...mostly military. On the side streets there was no traffic at all. Houses were closed and shuttered. Schools were deserted, shops closed, restaurants barricaded. Only a few sampans plied the Perfume River. Some of the buildings of Hue University were used to house refugees. Once a day a dump truck arrived loaded with loaves of flyspecked 'welfare' bread. Each family of five was given one loaf a day, and nothing more. 'All the people with enough money have gone,' one middle-aged refugee told me. 'Only we are left...
This year's second Dump Truck, a literary-political sketch of George Orwell by Garrett Epps, tries to place the man once again within his time. The author has tried not to abstract Orwell's writings and deliver them to us as pronouncements. Instead, Orwell's works are described in dynamic terms, moving closer to clarity and comprehension as Orwell moved through contemporary events...