Word: heaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, Novelist James M. Cain has worked a literary lode bordering a trash heap. Even his best works−The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity−reeked of their neighborhood, and no doubt as a consequence were made into movies. In this novel, his sixteenth, Cain has at last achieved breakthrough. The Magician's Wife is pure trash. The book is so bad, in fact, that it is redeemed by its own absolute sins against credibility, plot, characterization and style. Reading it becomes a suspenseful exercise in disbelief, in which the reader is sustained, as well...
...colors whose names would make today's automotive palette seem pale indeed-Moleskin Brown, Andalusite Blue, Cigarette Cream, Mulberry Maroon, Chicle Drab. The job of the restorer is to return the car as close to factory condition as possible. Many of the cars are rescued from the junk heap; others are bought from philistines who have put in engines from other cars and replaced original with makeshift parts. To discover how the car once was, restorers thumb through old Ford service booklets, then set out to find the missing parts. Many are found at the restorers' annual swap...
...Djakarta, his first ambassadorial assignment, he replaces genial Howard P. Jones, whose seven years of effort to win over Sukarno with tolerant understanding did not deter the Bung from continuing to heap contempt and ridicule on the U.S. Whether a blunter approach will bear fruit is anyone's guess. The U.S. sympathizes with Malaysia, but would like to cling to some friendly ties with Indonesia, however tenuous. Sukarno may be angry at the latest U.S. loan to Malaysia for military equipment, but the Malaysians of late have been equally miffed by the proposed sale of $4,000,000 worth...
...left and right or, as others suggest, a third alternative, a kind of safe middle ground. I suggest to you there is no left or right, only an up or down. Up to the maximum of individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism...
...Regimen. Cobb stuck to his stiff regimen, completed the program last spring. Now, at 232, he has gone to work in an Augusta shoe-repair shop. He returns to the hospital for a checkup every other week, and has maintained his new figure. Says he: "There's a heap more will power connected with it than anything else...