Word: heapings
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...Washington Post is an ordinary American paper that willed itself to be better. It still carries much of the standard dreck-lovelorn columns, horoscopes, beauty hints-as well as 25 comics. But to this compost heap the Post has added solid and penetrating reporting and an engaging flair...
...month, acquired the store in time, and saw Jimmy's father grow and pass him in success: "Everything Earl laid his hand down on, when he picked it up, there was three or four dollars. When he died he left about 4,000 acres of land and a heap of money in the bank...
...elements. Stars born more recently have more of the heavy elements produced by their predecessors. Those currently forming in interstellar dust clouds can be expected to have significant proportions of the atoms produced in celestial forges. Says Thaddeus of the clouds: "We can see the lovely fertilizer, this compost heap just sitting there waiting to be consumed in star formation...
...Hughes was lying in bed naked," Stewart said. "The room was still heaving and it felt as if the hotel was going to collapse in a heap. The boss had to be the calmest man in Managua. He kept saying that he would be all right. He didn't show any anxiety about getting out of the hotel. He asked me 'What is the extent of the damage...
...devoted father-as handsome, she reports, as Jimmy Stewart. But he doesn't want to live in the city. And he doesn't talk to Stephanie enough. "Our silence festers," she confides to her journal. "Our silence swells. Our silence lies between us like a heap of garbage." Within a few years, "I knew I would rather die brutally, prematurely, than lead the life my husband would have preferred for me." Eventually, in the throes of what an earlier age might have charitably called cabin fever, she runs through the forest clutching leaves, moaning with thirst, and finally...