Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promises to be a quiet and, at least on the surface, harmonious session, in keeping with its rustic setting. Le Chateau Montebello, 40 miles east of Ottawa, is the world's largest building made of logs. (One member of the U.S. advance team ungenerously called it "a dump...
...hospital was a dump," he says. "That was when I cried. I had to beg for a wheelchair. The physical therapy program was a joke." The wound he suffered at the forgotten hill in the Central Highlands left him paralyzed, but the wounds he incurred at home galvanized him into action. Says he: "I had always been respectful to authority. Now I knew that I either had to fight these guys or let them control...
...sometimes 80 cars long rumble across the Midwest and into the mouth of a mammoth limestone cave in Kansas City, Kans. Below ground, workers descend upon the boxcars and begin unloading the crated cargo. The tight security suggests an underground nuclear test facility, or maybe a toxic waste storage dump. In fact, the site is actually the U.S. Government's largest warehouse for surplus butter...
...film. It doesn't matter. But it should." One answer, according to Boyer, is requiring all students to take a few well-planned, interdisciplinary "core" courses. Another: special campus-wide conferences about how academic disciplines relate to each other. Sums up Chicago's Dean Jonathan Smith, "To dump on students the task of finding coherence in their education is indefensible. Colleges shouldn't be allowed to collect tuition on that basis...
Like a Soviet armored division trundling across the Polish border, a battalion of Midshipmen jumped all over a quintet of Crimson pitchers, piling up 17 hits to dump the Crimson in the Eastern League opener, 14-7 and blast the Harvard nine out of Annapolis...