Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist Party bigwigs in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater beamed at each other in open, reassured relief. Their smiles said: "Ah, now we've got it too." But Molotov's words, obviously intended for home consumption, seemed to strike some U.S. editors all of a heap. They splashed Molotov's boast with big black headlines usually reserved for major catastrophes...
Pennsylvania and Yale, as was expected, emerged from last weekend's gridiron battles practically without mussing their parts and, with a skein of three victories against no defeats apiece, seemed certain to be on top of the Ivy League heap come the final judgement day, November...
...wedge was in its heyday, there being only one way to stop it. To accomplish this the defensive teams would have to perform the highly dangerous maneuver of lying flat on the ground and trying to trip up the onrushing wedge. If they succeeded, there would be a great heap of about twenty men in the line of scrimmage, and no yards gained...
...Second cousin to Winston Churchill, no kin to Rhymester Edgar ("It takes a heap o' livin' ") Guest...
...many at the auction, Doré's paintings looked like tremendously outsized Sunday school chromos darkened by varnish and dirt. In the general murk, Moses could be discerned gesticulating at Pharaoh, a sad-faced monk daydreamed over an organ, pagan gods fell in a heap beneath a cross, and Paolo and Francesca embraced in hell. Critics wondered how the great illustrator could possibly have turned out such daubs...