Word: heaping
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...Wankel engine, in which a rotor instead of pistons produces the power. When the world oil crisis began in 1973, the gas-guzzling Wankels became a sales disaster because they delivered a maximum of only about 15 miles to the gallon. The company seemed headed for the corporate scrap heap. Recalls one executive: "Every day felt like doomsday back then...
Some American B-52s presumably could scramble into the air during a Soviet attack and heap destruction on the U.S.S.R. Nuclear planners until now have generally concluded that the two nations are in rough parity-meaning, essentially, that each could destroy the other. As the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff put it in a "military posture" statement for the current fiscal year: "A major attack on the United States or its allies would result unquestionably in catastrophic retaliatory damage to the Soviet Union...
...fireball are blinded by it. An instant later they and the rest of the crowd are on fire. But the pain ends quickly: the explosion's blast wave, like a super-hardened wall of air moving faster than sound, crushes the stands and the spectators into a heap of rubble...
Just as the buzzer sounded, Ken Code rode Pearson into the sideboards and the two went down in a heap. As the teams skated off the ice to the lockerroom. Badger John Newberry took a cheap shot at Code and before it was over five players were assessed with penalties, all at 20 00 at the first period...
...never played with such a good coach before," freshman guard Silke Lach beamed, as the other players heap nothing but praise on the young coach, who was hired only five months ago to take over the reins of the J.V. squad...