Word: heaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the storm. The snow began to fall at noon, Jan. 19. It strangled Washington. Out like shattered glass went all the best-laid plans. For agonizing hours the huge event seemed destined to become a fiasco. Foulups, fumbles and failures fell upon one another in a tangled heap. The inaugural ceremony itself might have to be postponed...
...rated network does not necessarily carry the best shows, and that what the industry really needs is not a quantity but a quality rating service. At midseason the top ten shows were once again practically the private preserve of gunslingers. Although NBC's Wagon Train topped the sorry heap with a 36.9 Nielsen, CBS grabbed off seven of the next nine places, with Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel, a Red Skelton special, Dennis the Menace, Rawhide, Andy Griffith and Perry Mason. The only challengers: ABC's The Untouchables and 77 Sunset Strip, in fifth and sixth positions...
...Ghana, if a child should die before it is nine days old, the Fanti simply stuff its remains in a pot and throw it on the trash heap-they take the child's hasty departure as an insult and feel no obligation to respect the departed. Among Orthodox Jews, when two dead men arrive for burial at a cemetery, the more learned of the two, according to Talmudic prescription, must be buried first. In the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia, the Salish Indians dispose of their dead by rolling an avalanche over them. In China, since the Communists took...
...trains. He still manages to knock back heroic quantities of Sekt (German champagne), may sit up all hours drinking beer and arguing furiously with newsmen or fellow politicians. He reads three to four books a week: currently, besides Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, he is devouring a heap of volumes on a new interest, Africa. He has not lost his lust for Latin. On an indifferently argued staff paper he scribbles: "0 sancta sim-plicitas...
...measurement. Around the globe, other countries had copies of the bar at Sèvres, and their traditional units of length-feet (3.28 to a meter), versts, li, or whatever -were defined by reference to it. But last week the sacred bar was in effect tossed on the scrap heap. A General Conference on Weights and Measures, meeting at Paris, made a wave length of light the new official standard of length. The meter is now denned as 1,650,763.73 wave lengths of the orange-red light given off by electrically excited krypton 86, a rare gas extracted from...