Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took Cassady and his team a little more than a quarter to start scoring; then they piled up points with amazing versatility. A field goal, a safety and two touchdowns put them so far in front that Michigan was never really in the ball game. Elusive and powerful, Cassady was a constant irritant to the outplayed Wolverines. Result: the Big Ten finished its season with some fine collegiate fisticuffs, for the Wolverines seemed to figure that, as long as they were beaten, they might as well beat up the enemy. In the final few minutes, the football almost disappeared under...
After he had piled up millions in San Francisco real estate, Reese still refused to pay a nickel for a streetcar ride and thought 25? too much for a dinner. A contemporary described him sitting in his shabby office, "before him a large pile of $1,000 U.S. Government bonds, and he was clipping off the coupons. That face! Like a hungry boy taking into his mouth a ripe cherry, or a mother gazing down into the face of her pretty sleeping child." To a Methodist preacher, Reese once said: "My love of money is a sort of insanity...
...truck to look over the stock-market quotations. One morning last week he got into his truck as usual, waved goodbye to his wife, and attempted to start the engine. There was a thunderous explosion, and Bill's broken body fell near the driveway, 15 feet from the pile of junk that had been a truck...
...lives of Manhattan's anonymous masses, and everywhere-lolling on the beaches, powdering their noses in the mirror of a subway gum machine or just striding, windblown, under the "L"-the proud, full-bosomed, round-rumped, bulging-calfed girls Marsh made his own. From Marsh's mountainous pile of sketchbooks, drawings, engravings, etchings and paintings. Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art has chosen 160 examples for its current Marsh retrospective show...
...sour grapevine calls him. "We have a peculiar national attitude toward money-making," he tells an acquaintance. "We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call free enterprise-the profit system -but when one of our citizens shows enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do our best to make him feel . . . ashamed of himself...