Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fine day in 1972, an assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts drove to the city dump in Rockland, Mass., took 14 bulky typescripts out of his car and heaved them as far as he could into the trash. "I waited till the bulldozer came by and buried them," said George V. Higgins recently, recalling the scene with satisfaction. "And then I left...
...following watches the bookstores and grabs whatever he writes on the first bounce -- to be able to quit his assistant U.S. Attorney post in 1973, and eventually to leave off the practice of law altogether. That year he published a superb second novel (16th, counting those in the Rockland dump) called The Digger's Game. If somebody isn't teaching this small marvel in writing classes, then U.S. education is in worse shape than we have been told. Probably not, though; there is an indictable villainy or two in the plot, and Higgins is pigeonholed, wrongly but irretrievably...
...aides proclaim continued readiness to join Gorbachev in some kind of coalition government of "national trust" to guide the Union through the wrenching transition to a market economy. The Yeltsinites insist, however, that any coalition must drop Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov. So far, Gorbachev has shown no disposition to dump...
...growing perception gap between the sexes. A much discussed phenomenon known as Narita divorce illustrates the problem: upon arriving back home at Tokyo's Narita Airport, fresh from their honeymoons, many worldly young women, shocked to have discovered the narrow-mindedness and dependency of their new bridegrooms, promptly dump them...
...Vice President has begun his 1992 don't-dump-me-from-the-ticket campaign. He stumbled through an interview with Ted Koppel and tried to sell conservatives on the budget deal, yet 69% of voters surveyed by NBC this month said they would be uncomfortable with...