Word: dumps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...defended the "federation" plan under which Palestine would be divided into three zones (TIME, Aug. 5). However, if the U.S. would not concur, His Majesty's Government would have to "reconsider." Winston Churchill put it more bluntly. If the U.S. would not concur, he said, then Britain should dump the matter into the U.S.'s lap and get out of the country. That would effectively answer those who think that Britain is hanging on to Palestine as a military base in lieu of Egypt...
Faith & Sweet Potatoes. In two years Mrs. Bethune's school was teaching 250 girls. By selling sweet-potato pie and ice cream to the railroad construction gangs, she raised enough money to buy the oozing city dump (known as "Hell's Hole"). Negro workmen, who took out part of their pay in tuition, built Faith Hall with secondhand bricks on 32 acres reclaimed from the dump...
...They had unemployment, falling prices, and few had the cash to buy. Nations found that the best way to handle deflation was to export it. They devalued their currencies (to sell cheaper abroad and make imports dearer), upped their tariffs, set up import quotas. In short, they tried to dump their unemployment and deflation on one another. This policy failed dismally because everybody devalued. Instead of exporting deflation, everybody got poorer...
...Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated henhouse. . . . There is a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves. . . . Modern writing at its worst . . . consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else...
...other transient GIs could observe their incarcerated friends double timing to chow, sneaking in a verboten smoke (prisoners were allotted three cigarettes a day at Lichfield-one after every meal) or standing at attention, in front of the mess hall, waiting for the rest of the detachment to dump its mess kits and fall in. They shivered slightly in the courtyard, for inmates weren't allowed field jackets above their fatigues in mid-winter...