Word: pile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's drama-review magazines have had as noble intentions and as few accomplishments as any of the community's enormous pile of publications. Their original purpose was to free Harvard drama from the tyranny of newspaper reviewers unversed in theatrical traditions or techniques. Writers with dramatic experience, the reviews' founders felt, would be appreciated by the theatre-loving public and would be able to offer sound criticism to performers...
...biggest buyer of aluminum. The department will buy between 300,000 and 400,000 tons of aluminum in 1966 [double its 1965 consumption] which I believe is 10 or 15% of the industry's production." Why buy aluminum when the Government has so much in its stock pile? The explanation was that stockpile aluminum is not completely processed, and the Government owns no facilities for processing it; the aluminum the Government buys from industry is fabricated for special purposes, such as helicopter landing pads or guns. The other aluminum companies got the point, quickly rescinded their price increases...
...wash dishes and store them on wooden shelves. After lunch I offered to give a demonstration of dishwashing. The word went out to the villagers, who quickly gathered in a big circle, while I squatted in the middle with a basin of water, soap, a sponge, and a pile of dirty plates. As I washed, J. explained in a stentorian voice what it was necessary to do to kill germs. I washed the dishes carefully, then took the hot water that I'd had the women heat and poured it over the plates and glasses. The rinsing with boiling water...
Lobengula was a curious combination of statesman and savage. To demonstrate his ability to keep up to date, he had built a Victorian brick house among the wattle huts of his royal compound at Bulawayo. The brick pile was only ceremonial; he lived in a covered wagon given him by a passing trader and used its driver's seat as his throne. He loved to show bug-eyed visitors the royal treasury: two rusty biscuit tins filled with diamonds. A crafty giant of a man who stood 6 ft. 6 in. and weighed 300 Ibs., the Matabele king...
...outcome of the election will be the results from Brooklyn. If Lindsay cannot stay close to the total Beame's allies pile up in New York's largest borough, then he will not be able to capture sufficient votes in other boroughs from the normally Democratic minority groups that are heavily represented in Brooklyn