Word: heaping
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...gave Pound the international voice his poetry had failed to give him. On the Rome radio, he used it to heap contumely on the Jews, to lecture and vilify his native land. After the U.S. entered the war, he kept it up. On July 26, 1943, he became one of the few U.S. citizens ever to be indicted for treason...
...Third World War to Save Civilization had ended (with the help of the improved atom bomb) in the virtual extinction of the human race. The only visible survivors, a mother and daughter, were huddled near a rubble heap in the middle of Manhattan, which, blasted and fused by the bombs, elsewhere lay between its rivers as narrow, smooth and shiny as a coffin...
...calculate coldly the amount of aluminum in her superstructure, the steel in her hull. Officers and men learned then that old Pat was through. They were not bitter. More than 200 other veterans of World War II (about 600,000 tons of warships) were also marked for the scrap heap. Considering the life she had led, Pat had lasted a long time...
...Constellations, largest single block of commercial orders in aviation history. With this fat backlog, Lockheed moved into Planemaker Donald W. Douglas' place as the No. 1 U.S. commercial plane builder. In one hop, the four-motored, 51 passenger Constellation had carried Lockheed to the top of the heap...
...Compost Heap. The Times'snewsroom spotted the story. Next day a slim, dark-haired reporter named James McGuire visited Mrs. Majczek, listened as she told her story in broken English. The Times refused her offer of the $5,000, began raking over the forgotten files of the Lundy case, uncovered a legal compost heap...