Word: pileser
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Unfortunately, the first phase of construction ceded to the second without much warning. The job suddenly got serious. They started driving steel piles into the ground with a giant hammering machine that utilizes both explosives and a falling weight.
LIFE near a construction site is not without its rewards. I have enjoyed playing detective to figure exactly how the pile driver works and, for that matter, figuring out what the piles are for.
There is a certain pleasure in noting the progress being made every day, in seeing the entire former parking lot slowly but steadily ringed with steel piles.
Mangled metal, crushed bodies, bloody survivors screaming for help amid piles of rubble. Last week terrorism showed up again in its favorite city, Beirut. Rene Moawad, President of Lebanon for only 17 days and the embodiment of a fragile new attempt at peace, was decapitated when a remote-controlled bomb...
The first sight upon landing in St. Thomas is half a DC-3, broken like a baguette and tossed off to the side of the runway. Piles of debris remain lumped by the roadside in many places, but most streets are clear. This does not mean that traffic is exactly...