Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some are tempted to do too much. It is one thing for a swimmer to shave all the hair off his body to make an infinitesimal change in the resistance he offers to the water; it is something else again for "bennies," "dexies" and other assorted pep pills to pile up on the locker-room shelf. Almost inevitably, the International Olympic Committee announced that before the 1968 games in Mexico City all athletes will be carefully checked lest they use any stimulating dope...
...people in the U.S. has gone up 30% since 1950, solid waste-largely as a result of the ever-increasing use of throw-away packages and containers-has gone up a full 60%, to 160 million tons a year, enough to fill 2,000 giant cargo ships. As the pile grows, traditional methods of disposal are proving increasingly inadequate or unacceptable...
...Made His Pile." The practice was halted only after Congress passed the 1934 Securities Exchange Act and F.D.R. named Joseph P. Kennedy to head the new Securities and Exchange Commission. Ironically, Kennedy the year before had made $60,800 on Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., one of the last pools. "The President has great confidence in him," noted Harold Ickes' diary. "He has made his pile and knows all the tricks of the trade...
...away. He's my Jewish-Indian literary cousin Joe Hosea, the one who got thrown out of prep school in Bombay because the phonies thought he was trying to burn down the school. A very big deal. I mean all he did was drop a match in a pile of wood shavings in the carpentry shed. Then my literary aunt and uncle packed him off to military school. Way off in the Himalayas, for Chrissake...
...temple's porous sandstone, which is so soft a man can scratch it with his finger, could be coated with synthetic resins to protect it in the East Coast's soggy climate. The Met cited testimony indicating that any outdoor setting would reduce the temple to a pile of sand and stone stumps in 30 years...