Word: pile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nice man" had appeared, whispered "Come" to Eric, and led him away, said Brother Jean-Philippe. Other witnesses saw the kidnaper take Eric through a garden to an alley where an accomplice waited, appropriately enough, in a black Peugeot 403 sedan. A ransom note was found beside the sand pile, addressed to Eric's father, Roland Peugeot, 34, who is general manager of the auto company: "You are a member of the filthy rich. You must cough up 50 million francs if you ever want to see the kid alive again...
...France's Citröen Prestige, a luxurious version of Citröen's front-wheel-drive sedan. Intended to be chauffeur-driven, the Prestige has a dividing window, intercom system, deep-pile carpeting and rubbed-walnut trim, sells for $3,940. Another new Citröen: the eight-seater station wagon, which sells...
...their ponchos, black pigtails and felt hats, herding Peru's 3,500,000 llamas, vicunas and alpacas. In the country the Indians are still content to dance hand in hand around trees to the sad sounds of stringed instruments plucked in a minor key. In Lima, they pile up in miserable shanties at the rate of 4,000 a year, jobless and hopeless. Says Beltrán: "We are not immune to a Castro...
...states to indicate a presidential choice, and 2) a political Ouija board that fascinates politicians, and sometimes foretells political events to come. New Hampshire's early primary elections mark the end of the beginning of any presidential election, the tingling time when the candidates actually begin to pile up their convention votes...
...Kennedy's greatest pile-up of votes occurred, predictably, in the industrialized, Democratic and Catholic cities. Jacqueline Kennedy's French blood may have been a factor in the heavy vote for her husband by New Hampshire's 98,000 French Canadian citizens...