Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indian Head Bonanza. In 1950 Fred decided to buy a Geiger counter. For months he worked overtime at his job as janitor of the local high school in order to accumulate the necessary $100. The day he brought his counter home, he poked it around his backyard rock pile. Immediately, the Geiger counter began to jitter excitedly, but when Fred located the radioactive rock and dug it out, he could not remember where he had found it. For three months he retraced his steps through the hills until at last, on a Sunday afternoon, he discovered the spot where...
Envelopes & Doodles. The formal discussions were held in the State Department's Map Room, where the Premier sat with a pile of red envelopes, containing briefing notes, in front of him on the table. Dulles sat opposite, with only a clean scratchpad at his place. Throughout the discussions Mendès listened with wrenlike intensity, speaking almost entirely in English (more than once he barked out a French phrase to Ambassador Henri Bonnet, who supplied the English for him). Dulles often doodled or whittled on a pencil as the conversations lengthened...
...largest sign was scotch-taped across the front of the table. In big red letters it said, "Scared to sign? That's the McCarthy issue!" On the left of the table were mounted newspaper clippings, with appropriate lines marked in heavy red pencil. On the right was a pile of signed petitions, in the middle a fresh, blank petition and a ball point pen. And squarely behind the table sat the one in brown--ready to educate the public...
...puzzle, but his eyes are closed. The other members of the quartet-Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond, Drummer Joe Dodge and Bass Player Bob Bates-go to work. Desmond's tones are plaintive and pure, the rhythm of drum and bass is as rich and firm as a deep-pile carpet. Like Bach starting off to improvise a passacaglia, they lay down the tune-say, Let's Fall in Love-as a kind of groundwork. Desmond's eyes close, his long fingers glide over his alto's mother-of-pearl keys...
...switched back to the Republican column by 11,610. Early reports from New Haven brought the first deep frowns at Adlai Stevenson's headquarters on the evening of Nov. 4, 1952. In 1954, Republican trend-watchers will be pleased if G.O.P. Representative Al Cretella begins to pile up a good lead over Democratic Candidate James F. Gartland. They will begin to see a bad night nationally for the G.O.P. if Gartland moves ahead...