Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday, when Aunt Jeanne did not return, Inspectors Leloup and Lelong decided to search the hotel. In the cellar, behind a pile of lumber, topped with a birdcage, they found a patch of new plaster. A few blows of a pickax revealed the naked, decaying body of Mme. Perron, a gag still wadded in her mouth...
Comparison of present and past elec-statistics seem to indicate that Curley has lost much of his drawing power. This time, his once-mighty machine did not pile up huge votes for him--even in his home districts. To veteran Boston political observers, this indicates that Hynes will have a very good chance of defeating Curley for the second time...
...attack, the two men to watch will be tailback Dick Clasby and fullback John Culver. Clasby cannot pass nearly so well as Captain Carroll Lowenstein, but he runs well, even when not accorded interference. Culver didn't lose a yard all afternoon. When confronted with a pile-up at the line, he disdains lowering his head and merely plunging' instead, he rumbles up one side of the heap, and down the other, as though the whole thing were solid ground...
...writing not to throw anything at musicians again. A pompous ad extolling the uses of wood in modern life inspired his famous "Wood Number." Rushing wildly through a nightclub, Jimmy would tear up wall moldings and toilet seats, grab salad bowls and meat blocks to make a huge pile of trophies in mid-floor, while he chanted the glories of wood...
Atomic Energy Commission. Since the publication of the Smyth report in 1945, the world has known that controlled fission reaction is possible in an atomic pile, releasing heat slowly over a long period of time. If a safe and economical way to harness this heat to a steam turbine could be devised, it would be an ideal propulsion unit for a submarine. Rickover persuaded the AEC to begin work on a pilot model...