Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swank Manhattan apartment, a trusted butler clamped a chloroformed towel across the face of his master. So died William Marsh Rice, 84, leaving some $10 million-most of it to his lawyer. To his old friends in Texas, where Yankee Merchant Rice had made his pile, the will seemed strange. They thought that Rice, a widower with no children, had planned to leave nearly all his money to the founding of a college in Houston...
...objective realm, Lois Swirnoff of the Institute for Advanced Study has entered a most enjoyable pile of red and purple strata entitled "Geological Landscape." Otherwise, with few exceptions, Radcliffe artists are apparently relegating their abstractions to gen-ed and philosophy papers...
...preasure on the Wesleyan goal continued unabated for the next ten minutes. Finally Doug Gifford, digging the ball out of the slime and a pile of players in front of the goal, slipped it in to complete the Crimson scoring...
...ironic sense. Years after, Hanshawe and Cassy visit the old man, who is holed up in a rackety studio like a frowsty old terrier. After a few obscene remarks to his ex-mistress, the irrepressible Gorer turns on the millionaire with defiant, mocking scorn: "You make your pile, and with it on your backs you know you'll never again get airborne. But old Gorer, he's got rid of all that ballast. At least you can come and watch him fly-wheee! thar he goes-! Ah! How you love me, how you envy me and hate...
...count, each ballot represents only a single vote; if a ballot cannot help a candidate marked as first choice (he may be already elected or defeated) it is placed in another pile...