Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years before 1933, was back home in Indiana for his 80th birthday, greeted the press with: "Sit down and I'll tell you 100 lies in 50 minutes." He is positively "not a candidate for office . . . just an old, broken-down number out on the scrap heap with no ambition except to help my party...
...Etna Line, a vital center of communications for the Germans. They fought for it like tigers-500 to 600 of them, forcing Italian soldiers to fight with them. They held it for the better part of a week while Allied bombers and artillery reduced its houses to a heap of rubble. The battle for Randazzo was one of the bloodiest in the entire Sicilian campaign...
...worried WPB revealed last week that in the twelve months ending June 30 some 1,500,000 U.S. cars were driven to the junk heap. This was many more than WPB had expected (although a normal peace year's scrapping was 2,350,000 cars). The new car stock pile is down to 100,000, will be exhausted...
...yesterday I found Oscar in a lamentable condition. I was sincerely sorry for him. He was lying in a crumpled heap on top of a "scope." I guess one of the Master Minds had knocked all the sparks out of him, because when I approached, he bowed reverently toward the East in an oriental fashion and muttered "Chaffee is the only God and Tatum is his prophet...
When the people below heard the screams and saw the heap, they thought a bomb had blocked the entrance. They made a rush for the stairs. At that very moment (here and only here did the war touch this accident) something in the sky over London frightened those who had not yet entered. Some said that it was the shriek of a dive-bomber, others that it was London's new anti-aircraft shell which sounds like "100 witches going overhead at 1,000 miles an hour." The people outside surged forward and pushed down the stairs...