Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine-story apartment house. At 1 :07 on the morning the earthquake struck, 25 construction workers were sleeping peacefully on the unfinished third floor of the new building. Less than a minute later, as the whole town awoke to a nightmare, building and workers together collapsed in a heap like a house of cards. Near by, a cathedral toppled over, its steeple bell bouncing into rubble. Army barracks, a sports stadium, police headquarters, a hospital, a prison, and the post office fell like split kindling. The palatial Hotel Baudouin swayed and plunged, then foundered, turning its desk register into...
...looked like a Madrasi . . ."), Professor Redding could penetrate layers of Indian life that are closed to white men. It was his job to speak up for America, and he did so; but India's universities made him suffer for it. Because of his color, he was urged to heap abuse on all white men, and particularly on white Americans. When he spoke, instead, of improving race relations in the U.S., his hot-eyed young listeners denounced him as a hireling of "American imperialism." The American found this ironic, for India's rectitudinous liberals were as intolerantly racist...
Zachariades had long ago learned that in the internal struggle for party power, success means the survival of the shiftiest. His formula was impressively simple: never let anyone else get too strong; heap the blame on someone else when things go wrong. For 20 years the technique kept Zachariades all-powerful in Greek Communism. In 1950 he used it on the "old man" of Greek Communism, the late George Sianto's, who was head of the party in Greece during the years of Nazi occupation. When the tide of war started going against Greece's Communist guerrillas early...
...Some ants are gardeners. Latin America's famed leaf-cutting parasol ants, long thought to gather leaves solely for wallpaper, actually chew them into a pulp to make an underground compost heap in which to grow mushroom spores. When a parasol princess flies forth to mate, she carries in her cheek her dowry: a speck of mushroom culture to start the garden that will feed her thousands of future children...
Sunday Morning Tag. Teddy carried daughter Alice "pig-a-back" every morning, and she took to addressing him somewhat irreverently as "Now, pig!" Little Kermit had fun "turning somersaults on the manure heap." Ethel and Archie invented a game of tag involving pokes and crossed fingers during the pastor's long prayer on Sunday mornings. Teddy played bear with Baby Quentin and assorted small fry, pouncing on them with such energy "that he tore all the gathers out of [one little girl's] frock and both buttonholes out of her petticoat." When Teddy became too violently playful, wife...