Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their stomachs-and memories-decide. In 1935, after voting-90%-to rejoin the Reich, the Saarlanders heard Adolf Hitler promise: "In ten years' time, you won't know your city of Saarbrücken." Hitler was right: by 1945 the entire Saar basin was a heap of smoldering ruins...
...Charlotte's Web, The New Yorker's E. B. White retires, as all city intellectuals should, to a roomy barn on a large farm. Here, on a cosy dung heap, he sets Wilbur, a runt that is never likely to make much of a pig-a sort of porcine Cinderella, in fact. But thanks to bottle feeding by a little girl, Wilbur waxes so stout that he is a cinch to become the farmer's Christmas dinner. Wilbur's hard plight-considered first too puny, then too appetizing to live-excites the pity of a spider...
...time college coaches. And though Tech does its best to lure good players, Dodd must constantly cope with the hard fact that the tough engineering school has no snap courses like those found in some of the football foundries. How does Dodd consistently stay on top of the collegiate heap? The former All-American quarterback for Tennessee (1930) has a twinkle in his grey eyes when he answers that one: "Don't forget, we get the smarter boys—and that helps." It also helps that Dodd's Sugar Bowl-bound engineers seem to enjoy playing football...
...have resisted Russian blandishment, and remained loyal to their own church, but Greek Orthodox supporters are bracing for trouble. Said one last week: "Polikarp and his fellows . . . can travel freely throughout Israel and over the border into the Arab states without fear of a police check. An awfully large heap of gold sovereigns can be hidden away in a big car like theirs. And the Greek clergy are very poor men." Meanwhile, the Russians from the embassy keep attending Sunday services and praying for the worst...
...lashed the injured man to a stretcher, Loubens died. The stretcher jammed in the rocks. While Loubens' widow and father waited at the surface, the spelunkers thoughtfully removed Loubens' wedding ring and then buried him where no doubt he would have preferred to be buried, under a heap of boulders, a thousand feet underground...