Word: heapings
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...automobile. I have lived in France for two years and have been here constantly since the duckbilled (and humpbacked, tuck-tailed) "Goddess" appeared. "A million Frenchmen can't be wrong," you say? Man, if that many jokers invested in the old six-place family hearse, that represents a heap of idiocy-which will only be exceeded if a million more undiscerning souls buy the 1956-style Flying Sausage...
...gamut was smooth and even from the light, flutey high notes, where sopranos often lose character, to rich, viola-like lows. When she finished her arias, she accepted her heavy applause and sat down serenely, secure in the knowledge that she could remain at the top of the concert heap indefinitely...
...bottomland of the Ohio in the latter half of the nineteenth century--specifically the years 1861-1865. However, although the Civil War figures prominently in the story, A Dream of Kings cannot rightfully be labeled an historical novel, and tossed thus cursorily on the exer-growing heap of Civil War fictions...
...snap Assembly elections to be held before Christmas. "Grave national responsibilities" confronting the country early next year, Faure had said, required that the Assembly renew its mandate, which otherwise would not expire until June. Of course, the scheme might just possibly keep nimble Edgar Faure atop the political heap a while longer...
...Mathematics for the Million) Hogben, professor of medical statistics at Britain's University of Birmingham, Wonderful World is a fast-paced history of the subject from the days when people "thought of any quantity greater than three as a heap or pile'' to the age of Albert Einstein...