Word: unload
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those who doubt the effectiveness of the mining operation point out that incoming cargo ships might stop outside the minefield and then unload their supplies onto shallow-draft wooden boats that might pass over the field without being detected. As a countermeasure, the Navy might set its mines to go off at extremely faint signals. With such hair triggers, however, the mines could be detonated by a strong current or even by a large passing fish...
Last week's bad weather compelled the flyers to take even more risks than usual. Fighter-bombers had to slice below the overcast to "unload their ordnance" at heights of only 500 ft. or so. At that low altitude even a rifle bullet can bring down a jet if it strikes a vulnerable point...
...presence in the case, was rattling around again like a restless poltergeist. He had spent 19 days ensconced in the Hotel Inter-Continental in Managua, Nicaragua, where he may have discussed a link between his Hughes Air West and the country's national airline, and possibly tried to unload two of his mothballed four-engine Convair 880 jets. In another elusively Hughesian airlift he was spirited out of Managua and moved to yet another bank of upper-story suites, this time on the 19th and 20th floors of the opulent Bayshore Inn in Vancouver...
Dickey's angle seems to be the desire to unload the frustrations of middle-age. This is understandable, particularly for a poet, since, as Eliot said, a poet at that point in life is faced with the choice of repeating old formulas or going through the agony of trying to break into new kinds of composition. Biographies of poets invariably contain a crisis or breakdown, or suicide at this stage of life. And indeed, Dickey relates how his is groping for a new kind of poetry that will be different from anything being written today. This problem is that...
...attempt to revive an old form of Crimson journalism: the quirky, eccentric, extended essay. The Dump Trucks of several years past were written in a different environment, and were more confessional, more casual, and more devoted to the sensibilities of the youth culture. They really were "dump trucks" to unload younger writers' heads...