Word: pile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of a C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C--.(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C-- a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights...
Once, fame for a foreign star meant an almost automatic move to Hollywood and the purchase of a mansion in Beverly Hills. But more recently the traffic has been the other way. Stars who made their pile more often than not move to Paris, Rome or the Swiss Alps. Their children, who once might have gone to the Bel Air Town and Country School, now go to the International School in Geneva...
...operated for the local Communist regime. It was an ugly thing, and ancient. Its chassis creaked, and the engine coughed; a cream-colored coat of paint could not disguise the welts and bruises of two decades of chugging service. In fact, the bus was ready for the junk pile when Weidner decided to press it into service for one last...
...Pile the cold cuts high...
...next 15 years, they won five more titles, with a baffling, devil-may-care attack that was built around a succession of well-remembered stars: John ("Johnny Blood") McNally, a vagabond halfback from Notre Dame; Arnie Herber and Cecil Isbell, both astoundingly accurate, threadneedle passers; Clarke Hinkle. a pile-driving fullback; and Don Hutson. a glue-fingered end who was probably the best pass receiver of all time. In 1935, on his first play in Green Bay, Hutson gathered in a Herber pass and raced 83 yds. against the hated Chicago Bears for the only touchdown of the game...