Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goldstein broke through the Yale defense again at 5:45 of the fourth period when he charged into a pile in front of the goal and banged the ball across the goal mouth into the far corner...
Consequently, it seems fairly clear that if Harvard is to win, it will have to pile up its winning margin in the first half--before the team tires...
...night Turkish police watch the massive, drafty Soviet embassy in Ankara and the consulate general in Istanbul. Russian cars are trailed relentlessly. (Sometimes four or five Russians will dash out, separate, pile into different automobiles before the one or two Turkish police can figure out which car to follow.) Counter-espionage is big business here. From the time any foreigner, from private citizen to ambassador, enters the country, his movements are known. A vast army of full-time and part-time informers keeps Turkish intelligence posted on who goes where, who meets whom, who said what. Turkey's jittery...
...tickets were on top of a pile of old bank statements. 33 MM 4, 33 MM5. Vag had waited more than two hours to get them. Something rattled when he closed the drawer again, and Vag remembered the bottle. He had bought that too. He gingerly reopened the drawer, withdrew the bottle from behind the pile of checks. The contents smelled familiar and unpleasant and Vag felt the first tentative swallow catch in his throat...
...make the Waldorf more profitable, Hilton plans no cut in its present service. But he hopes to keep occupancy at a peak by feeding it business from his hotels outside New York. And, by giving the stately pile a warmer atmosphere, he hopes it will appeal not only to potentates-but to ordinary travelers as well...