Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working through a military ringmaster [General Johnson], we prefer civil war." "I do not think," said Mr. Lewis contemptuously, "that it will come to that. Those operators seek to make a virtue of imposing more degrading working conditions and medieval barbarism than any other mining region"-and proceeded to pile it on until the Southerner, fuming with rage, confronted him, demanded that they "settle the question outside...
...with another of his underlings, an unfrocked priest named Louis Chambon and the latter's mistress, a Mile Ballandreaux. When M. Poncel returned, found the horrid mess in his garden and the stains on the floor, French detectives at once remembered M. Sarret's garden and its pile of acid-eaten animal bones. The Schmidt sisters were questioned for hours. Finally Catherine Schmidt confessed. Louis Chambon, the unfrocked priest, had threatened to peach on Georges Sarret. Chambon was lured with his mistress to the house, and while Catherine Schmidt kept a motorcycle engine roaring in the cypress shaded...
...gadfly, had to play the heavy, as Chairman of the Finance Committee had to try to hold in check a Senate suddenly eager for taxes, taxes, more faxes. Sometimes the Progressives led by La Follette, Nye and Norris harried him with plans to soak the rich, to pile up surtaxes and estate taxes. Sometimes Couzens was after him to soak not the rich alone but all taxpayers in order to pay another small fraction of the huge expenses of the New Deal...
...over the ice as fast as a man can run. A good swiler can skin a seal in 40 to 60 seconds, and may take as many as 120 sculps per day. He may drag his sculps back to the ship at the day's end, or may pile them on an ice pan to be picked up later...
...CRUCIFIXION OF LIBERTY-Alexander Kerensky-Day ($2.75). The onetime head of the Russian Government gives his side of the case, not without dust and heat, adding one more stone to the defensive-memoir pile...