Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canterbury Tales, and it still seems none the worse for wear. Bellow's contribution to this hoary tale lies in Kenneth's fumbling, long-winded ^ attempts to get it told. "I take very little pleasure in theories," he announces at the beginning, "and I'm not going to dump ideas on you." After incessant theorizing and idea dumping, he confesses toward the end, "As is evident by now, I have a weakness for the big issues...
...chanting "He must go!" and listening to local politicians denounce Singleton. Said Mayor George Livingston: "My suggestion would be to put him on the barge where that garbage is and let him float away from here," referring to the hapless Long Island vessel that has been searching for a dump site up and down the Atlantic and Gulf coasts...
...Resistance was not blameless? That Jean Moulin, a leader of the Resistance who died under the hands of Barbie, was betrayed by his own comrades? In a different domain and on another level, there is some concern that the trial will conveniently and simplistically group the various victims together -- dump them all into the same file: Jews and Resistance fighters, Jews and anti-Nazis, Jews and political prisoners. In other words, that the specific, the unique, even ontological aspect of the Jewish tragedy will be lost...
...stinking scow then headed for a dump site just outside New Orleans. When the Mobro arrived at the Delta town of Venice, Louisiana's department of environmental quality sent inspectors to examine the gunk. Although the bales consisted primarily of paper, investigators discovered hospital items -- syringes, bedpans -- that could pose a health hazard. The bales were also beginning to ooze, and inspectors feared the scum would leak into the river. Governor Edwin Edwards half jokingly threatened to deploy National Guardsmen on the levees with orders to shoot if the barge tried to dock. As the vessel meandered about the Gulf...
...harder for the rest to live and work in the U. S. -- Texas Billionaire H. Ross Perot launches a private probe into what he believes is a network of former CIA agents and military officials. -- Richard Nixon analyzes the zero option. -- An unwanted garbage barge hunts for a friendly dump...