Word: heaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victims were then shoved against a barbed-wire fence and machine guns opened fire. The doctor screamed and threw himself to the ground, bringing the men tied to him down on top of him. Two bullets ripped his right shoulder, another grazed his right hand; the men atop the heap were dead...
...cars this year. Ford, which usually runs neck and neck with Chevy, is far behind, with production of its standard-sized Galaxie barely topping 400,000. (Counting all models, Ford has produced 842,000 cars since January, v. 1,300,000 for Chevy.) At the bottom of the heap among the Big Three is Chrysler, whose production of four low-priced lines (Plymouth, Valiant, Dodge Dart and Lancer) adds up to only 288,000 cars so far in 1962-just ahead of the 282,000 Ramblers produced by American Motors. But despite its reduced share of the auto market, Chrysler...
...Louisiana purchase not only set a record but hoisted Sam Newhouse to the top of the heap. With 19 dailies having a combined daily and Sunday circulation of 5,700,000, he now owns, in whole or part, more newspapers than anyone else in the U.S.; he has one more than the Scripps-Howard chain, eight more than the shriveled empire governed by the descendants of William Randolph Hearst (although the circulation of Scripps-Howard and Hearst each exceeds that of the Newhouse papers). Nor does Newhouse's ascendancy end there. Scripps-Howard, Hearst, and the whole U.S. newspaper field...
...later asked him what he thought of The Cigarette Girl, he suavely declared: "It was nostalgic." The critics were not so diplomatic. "Unspeakable .drivel," "said Robert Muller in the Daily Mail. Said the Daily Express' Herbert Kretzmer: "The Cigarette Girl quickly qualified as the most dismal and abysmal heap of rubbish to be mounted in London-in the sacred name of enterainment-in living memory." The play was a smoked-out butt after six performances, and Playwright Home looked down in anger. "Critics," he said with icy disdain, "attack anything they think comes from the Establishment...
...courts have completed trial and rendered a verdict. (The knowledge that the University has administered a penalty, the Deans fear, might unfavorably prejudice the student's case in court.) Do not take false assurance from the delay, however; the University is merely biding its time before it rises to heap coals upon the fire...