Word: heaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most likely stupid, and certainly irrelevant, to heap invective upon PT 109, the story of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's war exploits in the South Pacific. But being an invective-heaper from way back, I cannot help myself...
...Ford, while Les Paul furiously strummed what sounded like a million electric guitars. From 1948 to 1953, their "new sound" sold millions of hit recordings such as Tennessee Waltz and Mockin'bird Hill. While rock 'n' roll eventually knocked them off the top of the platter heap, the electronically blended couple remained a TV and nightclub attraction. But alas, after 14 years of marriage, there was no mu-u-u-sic somewhere. Mary is now suing for separate maintenance on the ground of mental cruelty...
Though the varsity "rowed a good race" in the midst of the confusion, Cabot said that it "had quite a way to go if it's going to get above the heap." He pointed out that Columbia is greatly improved over last year and the Crimson will be in a "real rat-race" with MIT, Cornell, and Navy as well as the Lions...
...those who feel reassured by the statistical underpinning beneath a TIME story, it might be noted that the Washington file alone for this week's cover story on Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman totaled 45,000 words. It took a heap of filing to describe something of what goes on in 4,844 rooms and what is said along the eight miles of corridors that make up Washington's second largest bureaucracy...
...story of Georg Meistermann's life under the Nazis follows the classic pattern of almost all of Germany's modern artists who were branded as decadent. He well remembers the night that he got back to his home in Solingen to find a heap of his paintings, which had been on exhibition, "standing in front of my door in the rain, having been thrown out of the gallery by the Brownshirts." But Meistermann's miseries had one positive twist. "In those days, my paintings reflected my darkened state of mind. They were full of heavy black lines...