Garbage Dump

This view of the dog's origins differs significantly from the commonly held, frequently cited belief that the dog was derived from sniveling, garbage-dump diving, self-taming wolves among people in the Middle East who were settling into semi-permanent villages at the end of the Last Ice Age. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As Leith was led into one of the bedrooms he caught a glimpse of a garbage-dump kitchen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anyone familiar with the urban reservations in Los Angeles and Minneapolis will see the similarities to the garbage-dump shanty towns outside most big cities in Mexico. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Imagine if we are asked to pay this crisis price [precio coyuntural] for oil, while being expected to receive the garbage-dump price for sugar, the so-called price on the world market, which does not exist anywhere. ❋ Unknown (1990)

In other words, in comparing sugar and oil today, we would have one at its usual garbage-dump price, compared with a monopolistic crisis price that is 20 times greater than the usual price. ❋ Unknown (1990)

"It's all so like an ash-heap, a huge garbage-dump of men and equipment." ❋ John Dos Passos (1933)

He had a couple of dingy wash-boilers which he had picked up from the big garbage-dump near the race-track. ❋ Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 (1922)

In an elder day, when the Sawdust Pile had been Port Agnew's garbage-dump, folks who clipped their rose bushes and thinned out their marigold plants had been accustomed to seeing these slips take root again and bloom on the Sawdust Pile for a brief period after their ash-cans had been emptied there; and, though she did not know it, Nan Brent bore pitiful resemblance to these outcast flowers. ❋ Unknown (1918)

It is little better than a diagnostic garbage-dump or dust-heap, where can be shot down all kinds of vague and wandering pains in joints, bones, muscles, and nerves, which have no visible or readily ascertainable cause. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)

America is a Third-World racial garbage-dump - stupid, ignorant, dead-broke, and terminal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a recent posting on his blog, he railed that "America is a Third-World racial garbage-dump -- stupid, ignorant, dead-broke, and terminal." ❋ Unknown (2009)