Word: pile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd stood in awed silence as soldiers and customs officers heaped expensive clothes, cosmetics, toys and dress accessories into a vast pile and poured gasoline over it. With torches they set fire to the whole lot of goods, while women shrieked: "What a waste!" When the bonfire had died on White Sand Beach near Seoul last week, $20,000 in small luxuries had been destroyed. Since then the brightest lights on Korea's bleak landscape are from bonfires: a $100,000 blaze in Pusan, a $40,000 fire in Masan. Other fires are due in Seoul until...
...Crimson will count heavily on its usual domination of the weight throw and shot put, while Yale should pile up points in the sprints, hurdles, and mile relay. What all this means is, like, it's going to be close...
...boom, as new courses, opening at the rate of 60 a year, are jammed with wild-swinging enthusiasts. There is the bed boom, as people leave their straw mats for Western-style mattresses. There are skiing booms, boating booms, bowling booms, appliance booms. Cities throb with the pound of pile drivers pushing new office buildings and apartments skyward. Tokyo's streets -most of them no more than lanes-resound with the honking of 700,000 cars, trucks and motorcycles, v. 59,000 before the war; traffic jams are hideous, and the death rate from traffic accidents the highest...
...down on his luck was told by a Salvation Army lassie that he would prosper if he tithed. Starting by giving her 15? out of his last dollar, Page promised to tithe, eventually struck oil. "I couldn't miss," he used to say after he had made his pile. "I was in partnership with the Big Fellow-and he made geology." "Some successful businessmen make a great point of telling how their success dated from the time they took God in with them as a partner." complains California Methodist Dr. Grover Bagby. "To this blasphemous idea it would almost...
...SUPPLEMENTAL STOCKPILE. Launched by Congress in 1954, this houses imported materials that the U.S. gets by swapping off its farm surpluses. Value (together with a separate Commodity Credit Corporation pile of materials acquired by barter): $1 billion...