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...muddy garments of the proper size. One 11-year-old carrying a radio with an inch of light-brown clay on it told a younger friend, "Just take somethin' and come on, will you?" Despite his friend's "No, I don't wanna," he continued sifting through the muddy heap of department store goods...
...system of rice rationing. Bags of rice are handed across a wire fence to those who can come to get them. When a wizened man with a stump of a leg hobbles up, he cannot quite negotiate his crutch and his rice. He collapses in a heap, trying to figure out some way of fastening his ration to his loincloth...
Bingham delivered exposed films to the Soviets by leaving them at one of seven "dead drops" in or near the town of Guildford, including a tree, a hollow under a bridge, and a car door in a rural trash heap. In turn, the Soviets left a "parcel"-a hollow sphere made of putty and shaped like a stone, containing a fresh supply of film, instructions and sometimes money...
Land of Oppressed peoples, rubbish heap of Portugal where she purges her evil and her scum...
...Virginia. Like the one at Buffalo Creek, which was owned by the Buffalo Mining Co., a subsidiary of the Manhattan-based Pittston Co., they are built up from the residue that results from washing coal. The slime and silt settle, and the water that backs up behind the slag heap is often used again for washing the coal. Such dams in West Virginia have breached before. After the flood, the U.S. Geological Survey disclosed that in 1967 West Virginia state officials were warned that four waste piles in the state were dangerous, and corrective action was taken. Reports also were...