Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear up his desk. But away from his shrieking wind tunnels, he is still a spectacular citizen. He tools around Palo Alto in a 1936 Mercedes-Benz touring car, or a 1931 Dusenberg (original price: $19,000), lives alone in a bungalow that looks like a highbrow junk pile. Some items: five aquariums for tropical fish, antique Oriental sculpture, a reed organ, a library on Mayan architecture. There, looking like an outsize Dylan Thomas, he delights in cooking dinners (Creole, French, Italian, Scandinavian or Oriental) for as many as 35 guests...
...Their defensive team showed no signs of permitting the Packers to escape from an 18-6 defeat. And by then, no one needed to see a number or recognize a face to spot the hero of Detroit's defensive success. The man in the middle of almost every pile-up in the muck was the Lions' great middle linebacker. Joseph Schmidt...
Lorenz remembers standing for six hours on a packed express train that runs between Belgrade and Athens. "We played gin rummy," he said. "One guy was the table--his right hand for the discard pile and his left for drawing...
First, Exeter is more like Harvard than any other school. The Exonian, having reached the top of a very select and highly competitive group after four years of struggle, is reluctant to admit that he is on the bottom of the pile again. While he is no different from his classmates in this respect, he finds it easier to avoid recognizing his new lowly position...
...couldn't knock me off the top of the pile," Mayor Sullivan said in a victory statement. "The citizens of Cambridge believe in Sullivanism and in Sullivan service," he stated. Alan Steinert, former head of the CCA, led a campaign against "Sullivanism," the mayor said, but the fact that the voters of Cambridge kept him on top of the ticket indicates that hey approve of his regime...