Word: pile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost every politician in Washington last week qualified, in a strictly myopic sense, as "forward-looking." All eyes were fixed on the coming presidential campaign, to the neglect of a pile of pressing U.S. problems. In Congress, with two-thirds of the session already frittered away, Republicans and Democrats scarcely pretended to legislate, turned earnestly instead to making issues and polishing images for election-year politicking. After thrusting forward its hastily contrived, budget-busting alternative to the Democrats' plan for medical care of the aged, the Administration saw its compassion for ailing oldsters overshadowed by the Democratic Congress...
...Lauren Bacall), the British governor's unflappable wife (Ursula Jeans) and dithering secretary (Wilfrid Hyde White), a nefarious newsman (Herbert Lorn), two stolid Sikhs attached to primordial machine guns, a charming person (I.S. Johar) who runs locomotives, and an unspeakable person (Eugene Deckers) who runs guns. They all pile into an ancient passenger car drawn by a wondrously dilapidated steam engine called "Victoria"-apparently because it was built in the year (1819) of Her Majesty's birth-and go barreling through the enemy barricades. The plot is as old as Noah but as lively as it ever...
...July day in 1938, thumbing through a pile of story clips, City Editor Harry F. Reutlinger of Hearst's Chicago evening American turned up an item reporting that a missing U.S. flyer named Douglas Corrigan had been sighted off the Irish Coast. Reutlinger promptly put in transatlantic phone calls to all three of Ireland's major airports, kept all three lines open until Corrigan landed at Dublin and took the call. "Fly the wrong way?" prompted Reutlinger, mindful that Corrigan, before taking off from New York, had given Los Angeles as his destination. "I sure did," said...
...Hawaii last week tourists were telling the story of a woman visitor awakened by noises outside her hotel window. When she complained to the manager that "I didn't come to Hawaii to get a room next to a pile driver," he replied: "Madam, nowadays all the rooms in Honolulu are next to pile drivers...
...observes, as one could pick his own lobster at a Maine shore restaurant. Later, the goat doctor refined his pitch: "Operations performed according to your selection; you pay only for what you choose." The suckers hobbled in, and the money, at $750 for the standard implanting operation, began to pile up. The "doctor" began to dress like a swell, circumcised the Prince of Siam while touring the Far East, and sponsored a baseball team called the Brinkley Goats...