Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Airliners from other countries soon joined the R.A.F. in flying the heavy bales of bags to the British flood areas, where trucks and volunteers stood ready in the cold and snow to fill and pile them up. More than 11 million bags were on hand by the time the spring tides rose again at week's end. Said Wing Commander Masterman, who organized Operation King Canute, as the sandbag-lift was called: "It's been a delight. It shows the thing works in peacetime as well...
...finale came when Tarah was "buried alive." He went into another cataleptic fit and stage hands laid him into a plywood coffin lying in a pile of sand. They sprinkled several shovelfuls of sand on his face and chest, then, as the interpreter announced over the microphone that the coffin was completely filled with sand (the lights were funereally dim, and the people on the stage could hardly see, let alone the audience) the lid, which warped up in the back leaving an inch crack facing away from the audience, was put on the coffin, making it "air tight...
...near the end of his second term, old President Andrew Jackson walked across the street from the White House, struck the earth with his walking stick and said: "Right here is where I want the cornerstone." Then & there it was laid, and around it was built the columned granite pile of the U.S. Treasury Department...
...Gardener's Cottage." Resettled farther up Fifth Avenue in a 28-room pile which she termed "The Gardener's Cottage," Mrs. Vanderbilt lost none of her queenly manner. Convinced that Vanderbilts were a breed apart, she sometimes described herself as "all alone in the house," when there were, in fact, 18 servants there with her. ("She was quality" explained one devoted retainer.) Despite increasing feebleness, she continued to maintain at least nominal sway over what remained of high society. At the 1949 opening of the Metropolitan Opera, she appeared in a wheelchair, persuaded to suffer this discomfort...
...better than its defense. In the Rose Bowl game last week some 100,000 fans and millions of televiewers got a good look at some of the best defensive play of the year. The rugged Southern California line, rated one of the best in the nation, stopped the pile-driving running of Wisconsin's Alan ("The Horse") Ameche five times within its 30-yd. line. Running into the same kind of opposition (a total of 48 yds. through the hard-tackling Wisconsin line), Southern Cal turned to another football fundamental: the booming punting of Southern Cal's Desmond...