Word: unload
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...tanks flood the building with their headlights, turning night into day. Army trucks arrive at the scene and unload policemen armed with submachineguns and special commando troops...
...manufacturers completely redesign their ski models each year, thereby forcing dealers to unload surpluses at reduced prices. But this year, because of the general tightening of money and the dim fuel prospects, manufacturers and dealers have found themselves sitting on huge inventories of both last year's and this year's equipment...
Sales have become increasingly better since the summer--usually the dealers can unload all left-stock before getting their new lines in, but since they couldn't this year, they have been forced to keep on lowering their prices...
...mess began during the military overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens. During the coup, a Cuban ship left Valparaiso so quickly that its crew had no time to put ashore four Chilean cranes that were being used to unload sugar. The Cuban captain's haste seemed justified; his vessel was bombed and strafed before escaping to sea. Another Cuban ship laden with sugar turned back to Havana before it made port in Chile. In each instance, Chile's new junta cried foul. It contended that Cuba had to deliver 18,000 metric tons of sugar because...
...were charges by some that the President had "lost his senses." Nixon neglected to point out that the most prominent politician to offer this instant psychoanalysis was a fellow Republican, Ohio Senator William Bart Saxbe, and it was neither the first nor the last time that Saxbe chose to unload his blunt thoughts about the Administration. Yet last week, in still another of the political lurches that Washington has been witnessing almost daily, the President nominated Saxbe, 57, to become Attorney General. The man designated to serve as the nation's chief law-enforcement officer warned his new boss...