Word: pile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studies pile up (154 to date), and federal money pours in, Deep Tunnel just keeps tunneling deeper. Meanwhile, housewives in one Chicago suburb resorted to their own program to keep the sewers from flooding: they covered the inlets with worn-out throw rugs during a downpour. Worked fine...
...Shinagel explains it, he was standing on a huge pile of cow manure in upstate New York on a hot, muggy day with flies swarming around his face. Suddenly, in a moment of revelation, he knew the simple life of a dairy farmer would not be the answer. He finished up his first year at Cornell, and then volunteered to fight in Korea...
Robert Gordon looks like a refugee from a George Raft movie with an acrylic pile toupee. His last record, Fresh Fish Special, was a great open-a- few-beers album which included, among other things, the best version to date of Bruce Springsteen's "Fire." With his Elvis-like baritone and falsetto yelps, Gordon made you dance along and sing along, play an invisible guitar and even try Brylcreem...
...National Guard armories feel as cold as meat lockers; housewives in pedal pushers go Brrrr as they load their carts with food encased in a wealth of nonreturnable glass, metal and paper. They shake their heads as they pay what the check-out computer demands of them, and pile the groceries into broad-beamed station wagons. At home, the automatic icemaker sighs and clatters in the kitchen; the automatic washer discos through the spin cycle. The microwave starts dinner...
Despite repeated promises by the Japanese to dismantle their myriad nontariff barriers and allow more foreign goods into their potentially rich market, Japan's trade surplus continues to pile up. Last year it rose to $24.6 billion, from $17.3 billion in 1977. Imports of Toyotas, Sony TVs, Nikon cameras and other Japanese goods to the U.S. outpaced American exports to Japan by $13 billion, accounting for fully a third of the American trade deficit...