Word: pile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Squibba white? The author never lets on. After Sambo's fabulous success, there had followed a whole Bannerman series of Little Black books: Mingo, Bobtail, Quasha and Quibba. Whatever her color, Squibba loves the same things her little black predecessors did, and ends her adventures with a pile of pancakes just like the ones Black Mumbo whipped up for Sambo 67 years...
...Postmaster General), plunked down on a delicate antique chair-and crashed to the floor. "It's a good thing that wasn't the President," said House Speaker John McCormack. A few minutes later Kennedy entered and seated himself. He, too, wound up in a pile of priceless splinters...
...middle age with autumnal sadness, is its prose laureate. In O Youth and Beauty!, he tells of the ritual of Cash Bentley, a former track star turned 40 who, when the Saturday-night suburban party was guttering out between the empty gin bottles and the full ashtrays, would pile the furniture together in clumps and at a friend's revolver shot, go hurdling over...
...appointment since Harry Sr.'s resignation in November, probably attracted some sympathy votes, since his father's illness was announced only a week before the election. Nonetheless, Byrd won with a plurality of less than 2% , a startling contrast to the massive margins Old Harry used to pile up -when he faced any opposition...
...bounced and jiggled upstairs and down, through houses and haylofts, while Richard, decked out in scruffy beard and scruffier clothes, followed in hot pursuit. At length he caught up with her in a pile of wheat, whereupon the two engaged in some biting and cussing and all-round good fellowship...