Word: heaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Private Michael Terry reported how he and Private William Doherty found few animals or people alive when they got to the village about noon. "Billy and I started to get out our chow, but close to us was a bunch of Vietnamese in a heap and some of them were moaning. Calley ['s platoon] had been through before us, and all of them had been shot, but many weren't dead. It was obvious that they weren't going to get any medical attention, so Billy and I got up and went over to where they were. I guess...
...started passing a bottle of Bali Hai wine as we spun around. More and more people joined us: we danced faster and faster. It seemed as if everybody was dancing with us-there were at least five circles swirling around. Laughing and exhausted, we finally collapsed in a heap...
...Paris of Louis XIV that two miles from the city's gates a traveler's nose would tell him that he was drawing near. Scarcely anyone today needs to be told about how awful life is in nerve-jangling New York City, which resembles a mismanaged ant heap rather than a community fit for human habitation...
...Vixen's big break came in late July. The Washingly Post- whose reviewer said he secretly followed some Congressmen to find the movie-praised Vixen in a lavish piece headlined "At the Top of the Skin Flick Heap." From there on, the professional advertising machine went to work to produce a genuine hit. A woman with a breathy voice made a series of subtle ads ("Vixen-is she woman or animal"-pant-pant) for the local radio stations. By August the theater owners knew they were riding a good thing. So many tourists were flocking to the show that...
...After a national outpouring of emotion, Congress quickly appropriated funds for the restoration of the frigate. It is still docked in Boston Harbor, a symbol of America's longtime affinity for tall ships and deep water. Poetry may have been enough to save a ship from the scrap heap then, but in an age more closely attuned to the demands of economics the sight of the Stars and Stripes fluttering from the flagstaff of a liner appears to be a luxury that is excessively costly to support...