Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pile & Picture Windows. Given a free hand by the Shields brothers. Coll himself took a pencil to Chris-Craft's blueprints. A mechanical engineer with a flair for design, he slimmed the bulging bow line, streamlined the superstructure to give the boats a racier silhouette. To please lady sailors, he installed molded fiber-glass vanities and washbowls in the heads, put pile carpets in the cabins, and picture windows in the galleys. As a result of the new look, Chris-Craft is once again, according to Coll, "at least two years in front of its competitors-and I intend...
...absurd side of this nonsense is that Elvis is much too good for the show. He is, in fact, the best actor in the film. The deep-pile sideburns have been clipped slightly, and something-perhaps German umlauts learned in the Army-has strengthened the rosebud mouth. He behaves with considerable authority, and shows his dramatic ability by containing his laughter when Hope Lange says (to the lad who was buying Cadillacs before he was 21): "Don't try to tell me you're just a barefoot country...
...bank or even in securities if you aren't doing something to enhance the value of those securities. Dad once gave me a great piece of advice. He said: 'Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell...
...course papers begin to be late; he is overdrawn at the bank; his room starts to look like a laundry bin; overdue library books pile up in corners; study cards aren't handed in; he has given way to his suicidal urges...
With 100 miles still to go, mechanical failures and accidents had sidelined 21 starters. Most spectacular of the pile-ups occurred when Driver Don Davis lost his crankcase and piled into the retaining wall. Recklessly trying to sneak past Davis' stalled car, Rookie Driver A. J. Shepherd spun directly into the path of Jack Turner's onrushing Bardhal Special. Turner's car flipped through the air in a slow somersault, spewing parts in all directions, and crunched back onto the track. Before officials could flag them down, two other drivers slammed into the smoldering wreckage. No driver...