Word: pile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyone can vote, and as many times as possible. The brewers report that the volume is so great that they don't even count the ballots-they weigh them. This year the heftiest pile of the lot belonged to Celeste Yarnall, a lissome, blue-eyed Hollywood hopeful from Long Beach, Calif., who beat out five other would-be beer queens to become the 25th Miss Rheingold. And what does she have to say? She likes golf, swimming, tennis, bowling, cooking, baking, painting, and she is looking for a man "who will share my interest in drama and the arts...
...chemical industry itself, managers are still waiting for delivery of equipment designed ten years ago. Some of the products are so ungainly that they pile up unsold in warehouses -for instance, synthetic fur coats, which, complained one speaker, "are so heavy that only well-trained athletes can wear them." Only about 30% of the workers in the industry are engaged in production, while the rest are occupied with maintenance or bureaucratic tasks. Moreover, workers are underpaid and receive only a fraction of the prescribed incentive bonuses...
...until 5 a.m. Bureaucracy also takes its toll of leadership. Brigadier General Le Van Kim, a top strategist, is occupied by administrative chores; last week one of his staff's chief projects was requisitioning three typewriters. Near by, General Dinh flopped back in his chair, groused that the pile of paper on his desk grows higher each...
...LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. "Our lives have come crashing down around us like a pile of trays," Fitzgerald wrote to his friend Edmund Wilson. It is during these last sad years that most of the letters were written, and they show courage and humor in the face of every kind of adversity...
...back stretch, one pacer stepped into the wheel of an opponent's sulky, stumbled-and in an instant the track was littered with horses and drivers. Only two entries managed to skirt the pile-up and keep going. The crowd sat stunned as attendants rushed onto the track to administer to the writhing animals and cart an injured driver off to the hospital. But when the track paid off on the two that finished and voided tickets on the six fallen horses-all legitimate according to the rules-horror turned to unreasoning anger...