Word: heaping
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...love of the Fatherland that had prompted Nazis Hobel and Classen to vanish into the warm evening last July MPs testified that when they caught them next morning they were bedded down with the two canning-factory girls in a heap of woodland straw. Owosso Sheriff Ray Gallety later reported that there was nothing much unusual about that-about 15 town girls were "always sneaking out to the camp and nearby fields to meet the Germans...
...tank barricades and rolls of barbed wire which the Germans threw across the streets, the pavements were littered with piles of broken furniture. Whenever the defenders chose to make a fort out of a house they threw the contents into the street. Rudolf Quay was littered with an untidy heap of crumpled pianos...
...North of Kierbedz Bridge there appears to be nothing left at all. There was no vestige of the Royal Palace - just empty space where it was. The Old City is a heap of ruins and Zoliborz, the residential suburb, is entirely destroyed...
Finally, unseen, unheard, it buckled gently into a heap near Kalispell, Mont., 475 air miles east of the Pacific. Last week, after its discovery by two puzzled loggers, men of the FBI and the Army Air Forces went over it trying to figure out where it came from...
Along the highway are blocks of warehouses for storing spare parts; machine shops with facilities to repair or install medium-caliber guns ; an automotive over haul plant which recovers thousands of vehicles from the scrap heap; acres of tank farms (depots); acres of under ground ammunition storage depots; refrigerators for meat, vegetables, fruit to supply the fleet. Now abuilding is a bottling plant with a capacity of 500 cases of soft drinks an hour...