Search Details

Word: pile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...incomparable tool for the season. After the box scores begin to pile up and the pitching rotations start to whirl around, the Abstract gets laid aside until the off-season, as you concentrate on the season at hand. The Analyst, on the other hand, is a book that will be at your side all summer long, helping decipher every single game...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Take Me Cut to the Numbers Game | 4/13/1985 | See Source »

...bleacher tickets Front row bleacher tickets. We found the correct gate and walked in, but only after being lightly frisked. There was quite a pile of beer bottles at the feet of the friskers...

Author: By Jonathan Puinam, | Title: Business As Usual at Fenway | 4/11/1985 | See Source »

...border despite the bulletins for his arrest. A woman's scalp, presumably Capone's, was found in the car. They speculate that Mengel killed Capone and disguised himself as a woman, using her hair as a wig. At week's end police found Capone's body under a pile of stones in a wooded Catskills area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: A Twisted Trail | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...when Israeli soldiers in an army convoy drove into Lebanon after spending the Sabbath in Israel. Hardly had the vehicles crossed the border when a red pickup truck with Lebanese plates slowly approached the column and, as the Israelis passed, exploded. An open "safari" truck was reduced to a pile of smoldering metal, with twelve of the troopers aboard killed. It was the worst single loss the Israeli forces had suffered in southern Lebanon in 16 months. The fact that the bombing occurred only a few hundred yards north of the Israeli border town of Metulla reinforced Israeli fears that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon a Country Out of Control | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...same time, an Iraqi air blockade on commercial aviation in Iranian air space was in effect. Iran vowed to reduce the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to a "pile of rubble" if the Iraqis carried out a threat to shoot down civilian airliners flying over Iran...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iraqi Warplanes Continue Attack | 3/21/1985 | See Source »

Previous | 284 | 285 | 286 | 287 | 288 | 289 | 290 | 291 | 292 | 293 | 294 | 295 | 296 | 297 | 298 | 299 | 300 | 301 | 302 | 303 | 304 | Next