Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late. One rioter knocked the old man down, beat his head in with a large rock. The shopkeeper's little daughter ran screaming to her father's side. The rioter smashed the rock into the child's face, and she collapsed in a small heap over her father's body...
...days on end, the tough little clipper rides the fierce chubasco, as lightning sprouts like trees on the horizon, and the towering waves break over her stout prow. Then south to the Galapagos, "the ash heap of the world." Off these volcanic isles another scoop is made for bait. On the ledges of the overhanging rocks, the huge iguana rustle, and at night a volcano spews its fairy fires. Day after day no fish, and days become weeks. The ship sets course for Peru, and there, after 13 weeks at sea, the big latch is made at last...
...Homme, and made an international hit of the apache dance, which she did with Maurice Chevalier ("He was more than just a partner. He was my whole life"). Through all the glitter of her days of fame, she held on to her native French bon sens, acquired a heap of cash, a mound of jewels, three big houses and a limpid philosophy: "I love money. Not just to spend. I like to keep it-wash my hands...
...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...