Word: heaping
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...Obits. From far and wide next day the tributes poured in. Great contemporaries, heads of state, ancient enemies, old colleagues, distant admirers, journalists, historians, soldiers, statesmen and plain men in the street took to their typewriters, their telegraph pads, their microphones, their notepaper or simply the local pub to heap praise on a career that has seldom been matched...
Byrd on the Floor. Most Democrats had flocked to Johnson's side with enthusiasm. Oklahoma's big Bob Kerr and Illinois' professorial Paul Douglas indulged in a colloquy designed to heap ridicule on the opposition. Douglas asked if Kerr would like to know why a part of the Eisenhower Administration's tax policy "is like the Latin verb aio."* Kerr allowed that he would. Smirked Douglas: "It is present, it is imperfect, and it has no future...
...paused to glare around the table-"when, gentlemen, I walked miles and miles to sell a dozen eggs for 10?." His fist crashed down on the table, setting the chandelier above him to tinkling briskly. Illinois' Noah Mason jumped to his feet, laughing and urging Protectionist Reed to heap on the coals...
...Three years after painting Study of a Nude, Gauguin came home one day with the news that he had left the stock exchange; henceforth, he told Mette, he intended to be a full-time painter. Moreover, he assured his alarmed and angry wife, he was going to make a heap of money...
...also gives him a chance to write a slanted version of German history from 1918 to 1946, and to heap scorn on the Americans who imprisoned him for some months...