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Word: heaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began, the famed Notre Dame treatment that has been likened to facing Joe Louis in the ring: a series of rocking left-and-right crunches followed by a knockout. The heavy and hard-charging Notre Dame line seemed to move as one man while Halfbacks Lattner and Joe Heap and Fullback Neil Worden supplied the power punches. Usually, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...things out in a self-analytical autobiography, The Trouble With Cinderella, which he wrote on his dairy farm at Pine Plains, N.Y. In the book, he described his zooming rise from Manhattan's Lower East Side to the top of what he called the musical "dung heap," and bared his confrontation of an ageless question: Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Native's Return | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...almost ruined herself by spending too much time in the primrose (or aquamarine) bed of dalliance with a bunch of softies. But soon after the slapping incident, François is seen pursuing her through a forest on horseback, whipping her until she is at last dragged through a heap of "fine liquid mud" and forced to surrender, "howling her rattle of a she-wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She-Wolves & Bicycles | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

Next year the Navy plans to build one conventional and one atomic-powered submarine. During the same period, a dozen or more conventional subs will become obsolete and fit only for the scrap heap. Unless the building program is stepped up, submariners will not be able to maintain the force level of 105 active submarines, which the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been counting on in their strategic planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gloom in the Silent Service | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...Osmond and Smythies think it would be worth while to do a lot of chemical and biochemical testing of mescaline and schizophrenics. After that, they say, either their theory will join countless others on the scrap heap of psychiatry or the cause of schizophrenia will be known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mescaline & the Mad Hatter | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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