Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heap abuse on Madison Avenue and General Motors, say what you want about the morals and aesthetics of business, certainly. Point out, too, that the gusty days of the Robber Barons and Captains of Industry have passed away with the Golden Age of Comedy, and that the day-to-days of the organization man just don't have any kind of romantic sock to them...
...Plain. In the land of the Bible, diggers probed into ruins and legends that were old when Britons did not exist and Romans were savages. On the narrow coastal plain of southern Israel stands a rounded mound 100 ft. high covering 50 acres. It is a "tell," a heap of debris, hiding the remains of an ancient city. Israel is lumpy with tells, but this one is more famous than most because Archaeologist William F. Albright...
...cigarette had found a comfortable home among combustibles, but as the army of firefighters was to learn, not always is there fire where there is smoke. After lugging two hoses through the fence which protects Lowell from the street, the troops had little difficulty in quelling the smoldering heap...
...from sophisticated contemporary Christianity were obviously not listening to the responsive reading they recited during a recent service in Memorial Church: "...Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head."--Selection Eight-Four of the Hymnbook...
...gentleman after all: he is an international crook who, as a French paper prettily puts it, "collects precious stones, chiefly diamonds." As for Paul, he climbs up to Joss's bedroom and is about to collect something more precious than stones, when Eliot relegates him to the compost heap with a single knife-stab. Suddenly, the beautiful old house rings to the tramp of invading flatfeet and the idyl ends with a whimper: "Mother. I want Mother...