Word: pile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed already to be changing. Nixon's main order of business last week was that of puzzling out the future -and the way he was leaning showed that another try was much in his mind. From what job and what base could he best operate? Sifting through a pile of gilt-edged offers from all over the U.S., Nixon politely rejected several bids to head foundations, universities and corporations. He has all but decided to take a senior partnership in a Los Angeles corporate-law firm, probably Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, which counts among its clients such blue chips...
...Love Same (AJAM; Films Around the World). "Up!" the young man (Jean-Pierre Cassel) chirps as he leaps briskly out of bed. "Grmpf!" protests the pile of bedclothes (Genevieve Cluny) he has left behind, "you didn't wake me up the usual way!" The young man looks appalled at his forgetfulness, leaps almost to the ceiling, lands back in bed. "A votre service!" he bellows...
...ferry across the harbor from Kowloon to Hong Kong introduces tourists to a popular local pastime: watching Hong Kong girls, wearing cheong-san dresses slit to the thigh, cope with the wind. The first impression of Hong Kong itself is of noise: the staccato of pneumatic drills, thump of pile drivers, cries of hawkers, click of mah-jongg tiles behind shuttered doors, the shouts of coolies dancing under the weight of bamboo shoulder poles. Brass bands sound funeral dirges in the narrow streets; radios whine the cacophony of Cantonese music; the rataplan of $1,000 worth of firecrackers announces...
...Doha, capital of Qatar (pronounced gutter), gaudy pink, green and gold palaces sprang up around the huddle of malodorous mud hovels; one vast pile, reserved for the visiting heads of state, was equipped with air conditioning and window curtains operated by pushbuttons; the outside walls of the Sheik's own palace were studded with bare light bulbs that went on by night even when the Sheik was away, which was more often than...
...Kennedy can pile up a margin of more than 900,000 downstate, Nixon will have to win over 60 per cent of the rest of the state. And there...