Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, one of the first such clinics is now one of the most relaxed places in that vast and forbidding pile. Its windows have no bars, its doors are unlocked. Its four doctors and six nurses are more informal than their colleagues elsewhere in the hospital. Only a neat little name tag marks them as "staff.'' Patients are kept busy with psychotherapy (some of it in groups), occupational therapy and their own chores. Nearly all receive drug treatment, though few now get shock...
...coasting to a five-length victory in Florida's $136,600 Flamingo Stakes. The West's champion, Candy Spots, has an even cleaner record: he has won all his five races, and on the same day that Never Bend won the Flamingo, he skirted a four-horse pile-up to win California's $143,300 Santa Anita Derby by 1½ lengths...
...lazy lazzaroni rise to defend their ancient tradition of indolence. On Sept. 27, grim little groups break out their hidden weapons and converge on German units. A substantial enemy force is besieged in a soccer stadium. German columns rush to its relief. But the vermin of the Vomero pile barricades in their wretched alleys, volley grenades from the rooftops, take potshots from parked cars. Even the snotty-nosed scugnizzi manage to get guns and march against the Germans in infantine battalions...
Rice pounded his game opponent to the canvas twice in round one and knocked him through the ropes early in round two before ending the one-sided contest with a crushing left-right combination. The left literally lifted Miller into the air, and a pile-driving right chop laid him flat at the champion's feet...
...with the case of a house painter. To conduct his defense, K. retains an advocate (Orson Welles). But while the old earwig is mumbling about legal problems, K. sneaks off with his chambermaid (Romy Schneider), a sexy witch with webbed fingers who takes him for a tumble in a pile of old legal papers...