Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bumper harvests have gorged Midwestern elevators, and millions of bushels of corn and sorghum have just been dumped on the ground. In Hannibal, Mo., the corn is higher than an elephant's eye. Smack in the middle of lower Broadway lie 57,304 bushels of corn in a pile two stories high. The U.S. has lately sold corn to Hungary. Would Russia like some...
...christen an idea, jazz musicians invent slang, admen and politicans go for novelty-promising labels ("New Fab," "New Frontier"), art critics pile on prefixes and suffixes ("post-abstractionism"). But it is theology, slicing its concepts fine, that seems to need new lingo most and best knows how to create it. Plain words, knighted with a capital letter, take on reverent meanings; Greek and German syllables, in numbers from two to six, are joined and sent out to intimidate the outsider...
...every week it flung another wet arm around him." As boredom grows, faith recedes, and guilt closes in on Bert like a summer fog. He sits before his typewriter starting sentences he never finishes ("Where pagans go wrong is that . . ."; "Christmas, as Chesterton once put it . . ."). The rejection slips pile up. Whenever Bert tries to explain his trial of faith to family and friends, they go into "hiding somewhere behind tight, patient smiles." Sobbing with vexation, he shouts, "Matty, Dave, I want to have this thing out right now! This whole goddamn thing!" But they are not listening. Finally...
...really astute Filene's Basement shopper never purchases anything until it has reached the bottom plateau of markdowns. To accomplish this, one simply pushes the article to the bottom of the pile, the back of the rack, etc., and then watches the article until it has reached the desired price...
...their ornate garb. Such ostentation, the archbishop warned, "separates us from the workers and the poor. Let us end once and for all the impression of a bishop-prince, residing in a palace, isolated from his clergy." At the closing Mass of the council, Camara suggested, the bishops should pile their gold and silver pectoral crosses at the feet of the Pope and receive plain wooden ones from him in exchange. The archbishop may get at least part of his wish: the schema on the clergy has a chapter dealing with the right use of churchly goods...