Word: sump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viewer. In Milwaukee, Robert W. Sump was fined $100 for reckless driving, despite his explanation to the cops who chased him at speeds up to 80 m.p.h. that he: 1) did not hear their sirens or see their flashing warning lights; 2) merely overlooked one traffic light and four highway stop signs; 3) failed to notice that he was driving the wrong way up a one-way street...
...simply because their perception, interest or mental capacity does not match that of their contemporaries. This approach is a heartfelt attempt to humanize the vast school system and to lure rather than drive children to learning. But it breaks down a teacher's direct authority, and particularly in "sump" areas of the city, makes the tasks of instructing and maintaining order tremendously difficult and exacting...
...disconsolate old houses and drafty barrooms. When the wind is right, the indescribable perfume of some of the world's most thoroughly fermented tidal flats profanes the air. Jersey politics-a hatchery for grasping bosses-rests in this setting as comfortably as a bloated grapefruit floating in a sump...
...deep and fits in the plastic liner, which holds more than 10,000 gallons of water. An inflatable bumper ($75 extra), fastened to the top of the liner, prevents water from splashing out of the pool. The pool can be emptied by either a pipe outlet system or a sump pump...
...Stars & Stripes. But the sump pumps began to throb. On the floor of the House, Mississippi's old Dixie Demagogue John Rankin (D.), leader of many another Treasury raid in the name of the nation's veterans, led this raid with customary eagerness and cunning. He had wangled the bill out of committee. "Passage will do much to relieve a real need," he declaimed. Members fell over one another rushing to the well to add their voices. Said Massachusetts' motherly Republican Edith Nourse Rogers: to turn the bill down would be "a very cruel thing." Pennsylvania...