Word: heaped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottomland of the Ohio in the latter half of the nineteenth century--specifically the years 1861-1865. However, although the Civil War figures prominently in the story, A Dream of Kings cannot rightfully be labeled an historical novel, and tossed thus cursorily on the exer-growing heap of Civil War fictions...
...snap Assembly elections to be held before Christmas. "Grave national responsibilities" confronting the country early next year, Faure had said, required that the Assembly renew its mandate, which otherwise would not expire until June. Of course, the scheme might just possibly keep nimble Edgar Faure atop the political heap a while longer...
...Mathematics for the Million) Hogben, professor of medical statistics at Britain's University of Birmingham, Wonderful World is a fast-paced history of the subject from the days when people "thought of any quantity greater than three as a heap or pile'' to the age of Albert Einstein...
Oranges & Pennies. Author Dallin, an old Russian Social Democrat who fled the Bolsheviks in 1921 and has lived in the U.S. since 1940, has doggedly forked over a mountainous compost heap of material (main sources: court and tribunal transcripts, memoirs of ex-spies), covering networks in Switzerland, France, Germany, Canada...
Despite having fallen down once off toppling legs, such was Zwirnor's courage that he hung on grimly, 20 yards ahead of the onrushing Schelaeppi. Just ten yards before the finish line his legs gave out and he collapsed in a throbbing heap. He rolled over on his knees but could no get up and so never finished the race Schlaeppi...