Word: pile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind trying it again." Also in the ranks: South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who holds the alltime Senate wind record with an uninterrupted 24-hr. 18-min. speech during the 1957 civil rights debate; North Carolina's Sam Ervin, who is ready with a waist-high pile of books on constitutional law and a heap of stories about Uncle Ephraim and Job Hicks; and Louisiana's Russell Long, whose father Huey once rambled on for 151 hours about the delights of potlikker and corn pones, finally gave up only because his colleagues denied him a "gentleman...
...Abdul Rahman Mohamed ("Babu"), were free to forge ahead with reforms. Their first target: the "degrading" rickshas that plied the narrow streets of Stone Town, Zanzibar's Arab and Indian quarter. "No longer will men work as animals on Zanzibar" Karume declared, personally putting the torch to a pile of gasoline-soaked rickshas. To avoid political backfire, he promised the owners $280 each in compensation...
...Clutching fistfuls of bills, David raced to his mother's room. Mrs. Har riet Morris, who at that moment had $1.35 in her pocketbook, $1 in a savings account and $2 in a checking account, called the police. The cops stacked the old bills into a pile totaling...
...from the big Avenue Mozart jewel robbery. Then, on Maurice's next job, somebody tips the gendarmes. Who? Is Belmondo le doulos, the stoolie? It looks that way until Belmondo uses the Mozart swag to triple-cross a gangland czar, gets Maurice sprung from jail, and splits a pile of G notes with his old copain. It takes a long flashback to tie all the subplots together in time for a grisly finale...
...chance to practice the slalom on the banks of the Charles. The footbridge over Soldiers Field Road is being fitted as an ice-skating rink, and the sidewalks near Kresge are being left covered with snow so that students can limber up by dodging cars in the street. The pile of snow blocking the gate to the parking lot will be left for people to use as a ski jump. Such cooperation between the University and state authorities is indeed a good omen. Perhaps the sycamores along Memorial Drive can be used for logrolling practice in the Charles after they...