Word: hoardes
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Clearly the new system can be absurd -- some will undoubtedly hoard several books until 9 p.m. and then check them out for the night. Yet even now, in the midst of November hour exams, people say it is easier to get books than it was a year ago under the closed system...
...money pouring into Lebanon from oil-rich Saudi princes and frightened capitalists from socialist Egypt, Syria and Iraq, Bedas became adept at handling skittish clients. Once he even hauled a suitcase of stocks from his vault to the mountain mansion of a suspicious sheik to assure him that his hoard was really intact and safe with Intra...
...Shakhbout stashed it under his bed in his threadbare mud-walled palace. When his bedsprings began bulging, he transferred his fortune to gasoline cans in the palace dungeon. Not until the cans rotted from the humidity and rats began nibbling at his millions did Shakhbout finally switch his hoard to two Abu Dhabi banks...
...gold war against the U.S., Charles de Gaulle in the past 20 months has amassed a huge hoard of bullion. With Finance Minister Michel Debre acting as De Gaulle's Goldfinger, the French this year have been cashing in dollars for gold at a $54 million-a-month rate. Last week the Bank of France reported that as of Aug. 1, France had hoarded $5.13 billion in gold...
...this was Sir Mortimer Wheeler, the eminent British archaeologist, talking, and he went on to say that he thinks he's even found Arthur's Camelot. It's in South Cadbury, 100 miles southwest of London, where Sir Mortimer's diggers came up with a hoard of "Arthurian matter" on the site of an old castle. No armor or swords or pennants, mind you, but bits of pottery, some iron knives, and a pin dating back to the 6th century...