Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gori carries an olive-wood Christ child, accompanied by priests and deacons with swinging censers, acolytes and choir boys with long, flickering candles. The procession makes its way down into the Cave of the Nativity beneath the church, and there the figure of the Child is laid on a heap of straw in the place where tradition says the manger stood...
...fine bill of health came at the right time, for piled at the door of the 69-year-old President were enough major problems to give a younger man the shakes. At the top of the heap was the steel strike, nearly four months old and blighting the general economy. Instead of reaching agreement under presidential and public pressure, as Ike had hoped, the industry and the United Steelworkers were digging in for a prolonged battle of principle (see The Economy). Digging in behind them were such major industries as copper, shipping, railroads and meat packing in what promised...
Today Red China's economy gasps and shudders like an abused donkey engine. The "great leap forward" that was to make China a major industrial power in the twinkling of an eye has instead produced something close to chaos. In the ant-heap rural communes that were to convert 500 million peasants into depersonalized, multi-purpose labor units, there is apathy and despair...
...three other Eastern cities the League's first full schedule of the season gets underway, with at least one other key game. With only four games played, three teams--Yale, Princeton, and Pennsylvania--find themselves on top of the heap by virtue of single victories last week...
...single year," boasted Communist economists last October, "is one of the greatest victories of man over nature in history!" Soviet Russia might talk of outproducing the U.S., but Red China cockily promised to overtake Britain within a few years. Having herded 500 million people into the ant-heap life of "people's communes," Red China boasted that it had been able "completely to bury the so-called 'law of diminishing returns' which bourgeois economists claim to be universally true...