Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bank of nuclear-radiation sensors, still religiously monitored, stands outside the county's old courthouse in Tonopah, the county seat. The ultimate metaphor for federal intrusion is the Energy Department's hotly controversial proposal to use Yucca Mountain, in Nye, for the nation's first high-level radioactive-waste dump...
...There's something icky in Woody Allen's compulsion to write scripts about fifty-something guys ready to dump their wives for nubile waifs the approximate age of Soon-Yi Farrow Previn," notes critic Richard Corliss. This was the story of 1992's "Husbands and Wives," and it returns in this tale of a sportswriter with a pretty, peckish wife and a five-year-old adopted son. Allen's take on marriage is bleak, clueless; he sees it as a prison for two, where the condemned finally rise to a level of reciprocal pity. But in spite of all this...
That didn't reassure J.B. Blunk, a 69-year-old sculptor whose home was at the center of the ridge battle, with backfire flames only feet from his porch. He shouted vainly at the helicopters to dump their water buckets on his home...
...been falsely arrested and released and that he and the rest of the neighborhood have known for years about the crooked cops. Day and his neighbors never complained, he says, because they felt there was no one they could trust. "Cops lock you up, beat you up and then dump you off at the hospital," he says. "They just lock you up to make their quota...
...overlying the Sahara desert collides with cooler, moister air over the sub-Saharan region known as the Sahel. Under normal conditions, the collision produces eddies of low-pressure air that drift out over the ocean, where storm clouds begin to form. Most of the time, the clouds simply dump their load of rain and dissipate...