Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heap of Korean war criticisms grew when General Van Fleet told Congress that his efforts had been crippled...
...possible." The Daily News Record charged the students with ill-fitting suits, which were worn "threadbare at the knees. Topcoats were either three times too small or four times too large and had never been to the cleaner. Felt hats look like they had been resurrected form the ash heap, while shirts look as though they hadn't seen the laundry in three weeks." The CRIMSON rose to defend itself and friends, claiming: "If the critical gentleman could only realize how much thought over a period of many years has gone into the process of making a Harvard student look...
...indication of the new Republican foreign policy in the Middle East, may I suggest that it appears a little shortsighted. If, with America's approving eye, Naguib with his Nazi-advised army manages to dislodge the British from the Canal Zone, who then defends this vital international gunpowder heap in the future? With the British gone, only two powers are capable of the rough and tumble of the Middle East intrigues-America and Russia...
...This hurts me more than it does you." For at the very moment when he raises his hand to strike his son, the angry father may suffer such a violent (though subconscious) emotional storm that his arm drops to his side, paralyzed. He may even collapse in a heap on the floor...
...other patients. But gradually they gain some of her hunger to become normal again, while she learns to value their simple, unheroic humanity. Under Stephania's prodding, little Thura begins to move her paralyzed fingers, while Fröken Nilsson, outraged at being called an "old heap of fat" by Stephania, goes on a rigorous diet. Only Stephania, misshapen and disappointed, must go back alone into the world, to try to win a place for herself...