Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, "there should be no barrier." Later, as dusk spread across the ancient holy grounds, Bhave put his faith in man's conscience to test. The holy man walked silently to the temple with his disciples, among them several Untouchables. When they neared the great stone pile, the pandas gave the alarm. Some 50 of them, many armed with staves and sharp canes, rushed out and set upon the pilgrim band. Bhave calmly instructed his disciples to sit down and accept the beating without fighting back. One disciple was knocked unconscious, three were hurt so badly that they later...
...Grocer Dale Smith and sold him a boxful. Grocer Smith was soon selling as many boxes as Dottie Ferguson could turn out. She invested in a larger mixer, then in a battery of mixers that crowded her kitchen and basement. But still she could not keep up with the pile of orders...
...President when he sat down at his desk at Lowry Air Force Base at 7:45. During his seven-day absence, three large leather pouches, chained and padlocked, had arrived in Denver. Dozens of letters, written and typed up in Washington, awaited his approval and signature. The two-foot pile of "urgent" papers before him was higher than the length of the rainbow trout. With an audible sigh, Dwight Eisenhower settled down to work...
Resting up before going off to Bern, Switzerland, to head the U.S. Embassy. Madame Ambassador Frances E. Willis, 54, the first foreign service career woman to work her way to the top of the diplomatic pile, was pictured primly snipping rosebushes at her Redlands, Calif, home...
...Government money that he is becoming almost as legendary an economizer as was parsimonious Cal Coolidge. Mansure is so meticulous that when eating beef hash, he separates the meat from the potatoes. Unlike most bureaucrats who throw away paper clips, Mansure keeps his until he has a big enough pile to turn over to his secretary. Aware that time is also money, he saves it with staff warnings: "Observe the three Bs-be brief be bright and be gone. On all communications to me and to our staff, observe the fourth B-boil it down...