Word: heaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mahoney's solicitude for the welfare of New York's citizens comes late, and is woefully misplaced. He has no record as a champion of the city's rights, which he has long helped bury in the dung-heap of rhetoric and red-tape which is Albany. In the present case, he has misjudged the Mayor. For the Mayor has recently learned at great expense the responsibilities of a real politician, and is not likely to support a fare-rise, even if he is worked on by whatever survives of "the boys" after last November's election...
...plaster facade coming away at several points disclosing the brick construction. The doorway is wide, almost square, and is hung with double scarlet curtains. These are closed and set off the six bottles of milk ranged before them. There is also another newspaper. In a corner lies an untidy heap of rags, and other miscellaneous trash...
...varsity track team's semi-annual Heptagonal tragedy. Today at Ithaca, coach Bill McCurdy's warriors will do battle with the other schools and Army and Navy; and there is no real reason for it, Crimson will probably wind up closer the botton than the top of the heap. Already, have been taken to the varsity's fall. In this week's from the Department of Athletics, positive statement McCurdy make "Army is the team to and we figure to be up in the battle but I don't know how we'll to last week's meet...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is the secret that Actor Bobby Morse shares with the season's most appreciative audiences, as he clambers deceitfully and nimbly up the corporate slag heap...
...Jackstraws. "Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws," writes Author Tuchman; "one could not be pulled out without moving the others." Germany's battle plan was drawn by Count Alfred von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff from 1891 to 1906, a monocled Prussian with a mind that slashed through argument like a dueling sword. Schlieffen promised victory in six weeks by a massive, right-wing attack that would pivot across Belgium and fall on the flank of the French armies before Paris. Knowing of the scheme, France devised Plan 17, calling...