Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tenth lap was quiet enough (the French won it), but as the cyclists began the eleventh-lap climb into the Pyrenees, name calling turned to violence. Bartali, fighting for the lead, was knocked from his bike by a boisterous Frenchman, crashed into a heap with three other cyclists. French police restored order temporarily as Bartali remounted, but his teammates behind were pelted with stones and tomatoes when they pumped to the scene. Farther on, Bartali was nearly edged over a precipice by a speeding car. He won the lap, but he had had enough. He withdrew from the race...
...last week in raucous, dusty Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, lawyers and witnesses huddled for 45 minutes in a judge's office over a heap of official papers. In Rome, where night was falling, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini sat side by side in church, their minds on the doings in Mexico. At Juarez, at last, Attorneys Javier Alvarez and Arturo Gomez-Trevino rose from the huddle, stood before Judge Raul Orozco. "Do you," the judge asked Alvarez, "as the representative of Roberto Rossellini, know if it is his will to take Ingrid Bergman...
...came to grief while visiting the International Stamp Exhibition at London's Grosvenor House with her husband and longtime (23 years) royal lover, former King Carol of Rumania. The princess caught her heel at the top of a short flight of stairs, tumbled, landed in a mink-clad heap twelve steps below. Damage: a badly bruised right...
...soundstage floor during a bit of jujitsu; Cinemactor Frank Faylen, whom she knocked out with a right to the jaw when the director demanded realism; Eddie Bracken, who, in a saloon scene, caught a Hutton slap on the back that looped him over the bar and into a heap on the other side. "When they work with me," crows Betty, "they gotta get insurance policies...
...Professor & the Dump Heap. When the headlines fade away, it will probably be clear that Professor Owen Lattimore (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) is neither a Russian spy nor a Communist, and that his accuser, Senator Joseph McCarthy, is an irresponsible demagogue. But the fact that Lattimore is no Soviet agent does not clear him of having had, in less dramatic ways, a disastrous influence on the foreign policy of his country...