Word: heap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only after the Proletariat has disarmed the Bourgeoisie will it be able, without destroying its world historical mission, to throw all armaments on the scrap heap...
...hardboiled, matchmaking mother guesses that the young boy may be the ruin of her snobbish plans. And when one day Leo glimpses a few lines in one of Marian's letters ("Darling, darling, darling, same time, same place, this evening"), and is struck all of a heap by the revelation, it is for a disillusioned schoolboy's reason, not a scandalized adult's. "How could she have sunk so low? To be what we [schoolboys] all. despised more than anything-soft, soppy . . . a subject for furtive giggling . . . No wonder she wanted it kept secret...
...Angeles, dozens of hot-rod clubs build their own sports cars out of junk-heap jalopies fitted with souped-up, modern engines. Some of the youngsters take surplus airplane-wing fuel tanks and turn them into 170 m.p.h. racers for speed trials on Utah's Bonneville salt flats; others build elaborate racing cars with Fiberglas bodies and 300-h.p. power plants (often with two engines hooked together) that can do up to 240 m.p.h...
...World of Mr. Sweeney (Tues.-Fri. 7:30 p.m., NBCTV) stars Oldtime Cinemactor Charlie Ruggles as a small-town storekeeper who likes to chuckle out warm, homemade philosophical comments while his dowdy customers cluck around palpating tomatoes and cantaloupes. Happily, the 15-minute show steers clear of the heap-o'-livin' or Just Plain Bilge routine and stays easygoing and amusing. Item: Sweeney's young grandson, played by Glenn Walken, asks for a candy bar, then borrows a dime from Sweeney and rings it up on the cash register; this, says Sweeney, "keeps him honest...
...Heap O' Livin'. In Hartford, Conn., Salesman John Holmes, advertising in the Courant, offered to sell ". . . 40 acres of Pin Oaks and Black snakes. Old-world charm includes sagging floors, tortuous stairway and draughty fireplaces . . . Dandy opportunity to toughen up wife and kiddies ..." reported several nibbles the first...