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...instructive irony that the country that was for so long at the bottom of the heap in job creation is now so close to the top. The country is Ireland; its method of generating employment is to lure private investment, mostly from the U.S.; and its Pied Piper for industry is a former Gaelic football and hurling player, Michael Killeen. He is a man of Donegal, that scenic but tragic county in Ireland's west that sent so many of its youth to America (including four of Killeen's uncles and aunts) because they could not find work...
More than 15 years after a battered old coin was discovered in an ancient Indian rubbish heap near the coastal town of Blue Hill, it was belatedly identified by scholars as a Norse artifact dating back to the 11th century-making it the oldest European object ever found in the U.S. What is more, the find reopened all the old arguments about who really discovered America: Columbus or some Viking predecessors...
...order, the men nearest the door departing first. As some people of both sexes are still uncomfortable with such uncourtly procedures, a man may put them at their ease by making a suggestive remark about the woman 's figure. c) All passengers tumble out at once, landing in a heap before the eighth-floor receptionist...
...when John Spagnola wrestled Pat O'Brien's wing-and-a-prayer aerial from the hands of Harvard's Fred Cordova, the very sou! of Crimson football winced at the mortal wound. Cordova dropped to the turf in a heap, unable to move under the weight of the crushing frustration...
...might think that Action Line reporters who spend their days sifting through the dust heap of human woe become as cynical and hard-bitten as their colleagues on, say, the police beat or the obit desk. Not at all. "I take every letter personally," sighs Manhattan's Fidler. "I can't go to lunch, I can't go home, I can't sleep until I've solved it." Nashville's Appleton has a fat file marked BIG K (for kooks) groaning with the barely legible, highly paranoid ramblings of the city's loneliest...