Word: piled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes each man a very different type, and he is wickedly on target with both. Birdboot (Tom Lacy) is an expansive, chocolate-munching show-bird chaser who finds almost everything "a rattling good show." Moon (David Rounds) is an emotionally constipated, intellectually rabid exegete; any wispy pile of dramatic dandruff can fuel his fire about "the human condition...
...take a highly emotional approach to the Harvard match. Since Amherst hasn't had a victory over the Crimson since they locked up Ebbets Field permanently, Harvard normally takes a more casual attitude towards the annual contest. Still, in the traditional spirit of collegiate competitive sport, the Crimson will pile into a few automobiles this morning, grab a couple of toll tickets at Weston, and make its way across the Massachusetts Turnpike to discharge its obligation...
...Catholic church, where they had little food and water and were under constant bombardment. The city's defenders buried in a mass grave 350 soldiers who had been killed during the siege. "During the first week we just stacked up the bodies, 60 or 70 to a pile," said a U.S. adviser who had helicoptered in and out of town. "But eventually the smell just...
McCann was buried in an I.R.A. plot in Belfast's big Catholic cemetery, next to the graves of two teen-agers who were killed when a bomb they were making exploded last year. Around the grave was a huge pile of flowers, and all 21 I.R.A. companies stood silently at attention as a bugler sounded the Last Post. Cathal Goulding, the Dublin-based chief of staff of the I.R.A. Officials, delivered the funeral oration. Clad in a red sweater, his long hair blowing in the breeze, Goulding declaimed that McCann had been "shot like a dog by the agents...
...realistic inflation of scale. "These speaking ruins have filled my spirit with images that accurate drawings, even such as those of the immortal Palladio, could never have succeeded in conveying . . ." So in his renderings, the modest stones of Hadrian's Tomb were translated into a crushing, megalithic rock pile that dwarfed the tatterdemalion beggars at its foot; such Roman monuments as the Pyramid of Cestius, which in real life is as inconspicuous as any pyramid can reasonably be, rivaled the Pyramid of Cheops in height and spread. This kind of heroic misinformation provoked some murmuring from English dilettanti...