Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Omelette. In Las Cruces, N. Mex., a deputy sheriff was looking for the thieif who stole twelve dozen eggs from a farmer, left the cartons and the pile of empty shells in a nearby field...
...neighborhood, 17 of her club women gathered for a similar rite around $1,265 worth of furniture. The pushcarts full of food were symbolic of hidden and direct taxes extracted from an average paycheck each year-enough to buy groceries for a family of four for ten months; the pile of tables and chairs represented the tax drain on an average Morgan Park family...
...afflicted by "seedy hauteur" and rarely allowed "those thin lips of his [to] cream in a smile . . . the most damned soul I ever met." They shared rooms in an old tower outside Dublin until Gogarty upset the mutual trust one dark night by firing a revolver into a pile of saucepans that hung above the sleeping poet's pillow. In so far as he ever does, Gogarty blames himself for not having noted at the time "the latent lunacy" of his pistol-shy pal; but he explains that "it is one thing to study lunacy in an asylum, another...
Coach Floyd Wilson alternated two full teams in the first half, after which they led by only 35 to 27. But Wilson kept the starters in long enough in the third quarter to pile up a big lead, with Canty scoring from almost everywhere...
...became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers smuggled her loot to the U.S. The following year, after Princess Margarethe discovered the theft, Army authorities tracked down the thieves and most of the treasure, found a pile of the missing jewels in a locker in Chicago's Illinois Central Station...