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Word: pilings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not soothe me to hear McNamara say that our ability to vaporize Russia is our best defense. I am more concerned with America's survival than Russia's destruction. What if our deterrent does fail? Are we to shout hurrah because their pile of ashes is bigger than ours? Or are we to congratulate ourselves on how much money we saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 10, 1967 | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...snug, silver pants, the girls quickly mastered the special vocabulary used to describe the chaos beneath them. In the lingo of the traffic reporters, "gapers' block" is a tie-up caused by motorists slowing down to gape at an accident. "Spaghetti bowl" means an intersection where cars habitually pile up. "Carpool kamikazes" refers to autos overloaded with commuters who are not watching where they're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadcasting: Above It All | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

Stapleton rebounded with a vengeance from his second-round loss to pile up valuable team points in the consolation tourney. He smashed accomplished players from Dartmouth. Navy, Princeton, and Williams, all by impressive 3-0 scores, to hit the finals against ambidextrous E. K. Carmody of Yale. Stapleton edged the big switch-hitter in a bruising match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nayar Breezes in Singles At Squash Championships | 3/7/1967 | See Source »

...proper insurance broker husband, Victor-Emmanuel (Steve Kaplan) has a double who spends a besotted life waiting on the proprietor of the infamous Pretty Pussy hotel. The cleft-palleted innocent, Camille (Howard Cutler) is a well-juiced womanizer. Even the wife of the hotel manager is not the frowzy pile of heavy flesh she seems, for there was a time when she was served up nude on a silver platter. Flea is a wildly funny play--but not a kind one. Above the laughter you can sometimes hear Malvolio crying for help in his dark cell...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: A Flea in Her Ear | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

...phantom of the night she was. All dressed in black. She done come in through the back window slick as you please with this big pile of papers. I says "Can I help you, Miss?" and she takes out this long knife and threatens molest me if I don't let her run the presses. She had me strip naked and watch her as she printed up this book of hers. I read it myself later. It's only my opinion but it didn't seem like much to me. Our next door neighbors are far more interesting, nights. Even...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: THE STORY OF F | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

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