Word: heaped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Takes a Heap of Looting. In Van Nuys, Calif., caught with stolen goods in his home, 20-year-old Robert Lee Hunter explained to the police: "I was just trying to prove to my father-in-law that I could support his daughter as well as he could...
...court jitters and was beaten in the quarter-finals by top-ranking U.S. Amateur Singles Star Shirley Fry. Althea took the defeat not as the end but merely as an interruption of her long, often lonely, journey out of Harlem to the top of the women's tennis heap. "I'll be back here next year," she promised grimly. Earlier, pert little Beverly Baker Fleitz of California, the choice of many for the women's title, seemed bothered by a mild cold. A visit to the doctor brought a somewhat different diagnosis-Mrs. Fleitz was pregnant...
...half-breed named Buffalo Dung, who deeply dislikes David and aims an arrow at his digestive juices. Unhappily, Buffalo Dung misses, and the epic staggers to its end like a strayed moose caught in an Armour's assembly line. By then, for those who wonder Quo Vardis Fisher?, heap big David and contented new Squaw Sunday are headed West, perhaps to Hollywood...
...butchering room," a wounded Union colonel is saying, "I could not help comparing the surgeons to fiends. It was dark and the building lighted partially with candles . . . Some ten or twelve tables were covered with blood; near and around stood the surgeons, with blood all over them, [beside] a heap of feet, legs and arms. On one of these tables I was laid...
...Long John Silver, who can do without money, but not without violence. So the Cangaceiros have plenty of violence, most of it superfluous and therefore especially appealing. The good folk have a fairly hard time of it; in fact, they are almost invariably killed, or branded. And to heap indignity upon extinction, they are not even allowed the social graces of the Cangaceiros, who are tricked out in the fanciest rigs since Desiree (Napoleonic pampa hats and costume, bejeweled cartridge belts) and who have a neat back-in-the-saddle song which, fortunately, they sing quite...