Word: heapings
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...think it might be embarrassing to have Ford as your vice president, Jimmy? I mean, he's clumsy, his wife Betsy used to drink alcohol and take mind-altering drugs, and his children are always getting themselves in a heap of trouble. Besides that, Jimmy, he's one of them...
Nickles: A fine sight from an ash heap, certainly...
...Sweep the great renegade of the working class onto the garbage heap...
...book racks are filled with volumes of confession and revenge. People rush to destroy their own privacy, possibly judging that loneliness is worse. In the past ten or twelve years, everything has tumbled out of the closet in a heap. Some homosexuals parade themselves like walking billboards, the placement of the keys and handkerchiefs in their back pockets acting as a semaphore to signal the specific secrets of their sexual tastes...
...other countries," Filartiga says, "is sold over here." Filartiga often returns to this metaphor of his nation as dumping grounds for the world, observing that Nazi criminals flocked to Paraguay for refuge following World War II. Somoza likewise retreated to Paraguay temporarily last summer. "My country is the trash heap of the world," Filartiga states calmly, but his thick lenses magnify the pain in his eyes...