Word: pile
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...years ago, women in the area reported a series of insensate attacks. A mother driving her car was halted by a pile of logs, after which a hidden rifleman opened fire, shattering her infant son's nursing bottle. One night, as his wife prepared for bed, another resident surprised a Peeping Tom, who blasted the husband's left leg off. On another occasion a masked intruder shot a woman in the hand, carried her into the woods and tried to rape her-but was impotent and broke into tears. Police questioned Bicycle Bill but could get no evidence...
...when his muse gets too flushed to continue. Now he's the proud landlord of a new $210,000 U.S. Post Office building in Sacramento, Calif., a fairly common circumstance these days, with the Post Office Department leasing many of its stations. The investment will enrich his royalty pile by $15,000 a year. Cracked Assistant Postmaster Gene Gibham, "If something goes wrong with the plumbing, we'll call him. He'll have the agony, and we'll have the ecstasy...
...Raab rivers worked loose and washed over to the Austrian bank. On April 1, a 60-year-old Austrian farmer digging for sand on the banks of the Pinka hit a mine, which blasted off both his hands. Three weeks ago, Claudia Kracher, 2½, was playing in a pile of sand that had been trucked up from the Raab by a neighbor for mixing concrete. She stepped on a mine, which severed her left foot from her leg, and died the next...
Still, an estimated 1,500,000 Italians will get a welcome break. Charges will be dropped against petty thieves, burglars, check bouncers, and scofflaws, who pile up parking tickets in anticipation of amnesty. Even tax evaders will escape jail sentences if they pay up. Because the amnesty only concerns crimes committed before the end of January 1966, it does not affect such accused bigamists as Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren. Since they have gone right on living together, it is presumed that they have persisted in their crime beyond the cutoff date. If Ponti and his pals find that less...
Crooks said that if the applications continue to pile in at the present rate, the summer school would probably have to devise a policy of selective admissions to many of the courses. "It probably wouldn't work on the first-come, first-served principle," Crooks said, "but I'd sure hate to disappoint a fellow who had come all the way from Omaha and had filed his application in January...