Word: rubbish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficulties can be laid at Nehru's door. He has tried, on occasion, to translate into action his vague and intensely personal theories about socialism, e.g., his plan to spread farm cooperatives across the land. Snapped the Indian Express: "This is not economic realism; this is economic rubbish." Even socialist leaders such as Asoka Mehta complain that for ten years India has been plagued by socialist slogans, "and what have we got? Nothing." Seemingly, the only purpose the slogans and all the patronizing remarks about "the private sector" have served is to frighten away foreign investors...
...Rubbish!" cried a voice from the audience. Gaitskell persisted: Nationalism is "only one means" to achieve a modern Labor Party's true end-building a classless society based on economic and social justice. "No, no," shouted some delegates. But Gaitskell urged that it was time to revise the party's 40-year-old constitutional pledge of "common ownership of the means of production," and work out "fundamental principles of British democratic socialism as we see them today-in 1959 and not 1918." Winding up a speech that won only an occasional scattered handclap, Gaitskell said: "I would rather...
...Brazil's biggest city, was counting the votes after an election for city council, and once more the voters had turned to a four-legged friend. Top vote-getter (100,000) among 540 candidates for the 45-seat council: a five-year-old female rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish), resident of the São Paulo zoo, whose only graft is 70 Ibs. of vegetables each day. Said one Paulista voter: "Better to elect a rhino than...
...anthracite coal. Over the years, mining operations honeycombed the earth beneath the city with tunnels. Where the seams came close enough to the hilly surface, great machines stripped away the worthless overburden, exposing the coal. The city government found abandoned stripping craters handy places to dump garbage and rubbish. The Hudson Coal Co. urged the city fathers to stop this sloppy practice, but its warning was ignored. In 1946 the rubbish started burning, and before it could be extinguished, the fire ignited the coal. Flames raced through hundreds of yards of abandoned gas-filled tunnels, and started new fires...
...expected to take at least three years. When it is finished, the site will be filled, graded and, if possible, reforested. Eventually some of it may become a park-a fitting monument to the city fathers who dumped combustible rubbish against a seam of coal...