Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ritchie, director of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad," described the events this way: Returning from a cast party at 4:30 a.m., he discovered a four-foot pile of crumpled newspapers outside his door. Dismissing it as a prank, he entered his room and prepared to retire when the smell of smoke began to permeate the room...
...true." Led on by vanguard activists ("Comrades recruited from among the most politically educated section of party leadership [to] become educators of broad masses, especially of our illiterate comrades," Nkrumah has called them), the audience shouted Nkrumah's slogans, and Ghana "market mammies" performed tribal dances. A pile of copies of TIME was set ablaze, and Tawia Adamafio, the new secretary-general of the party, cried, "TIME is a dirty, filthy paper, bankrupt mentally, fit to be kept in the toilet or pushed into the limbo of degradation." Adamafio warned: "If this happens again, we shall hold demonstrations...
Pressure & Management. Part of the blame can be laid to the pressures inherent in a crash program. But as the failures pile up, Martin is getting so edgy (Martin crews call their pads at Canaveral "the inferiority complex") that the experts accuse it of becoming "fail-safe happy," of burdening the Titan with too many extra safety relays and circuits, gadgets that in themselves fail...
Leaping boredom and vaulting ambition are not Billy's only reasons for wanting to leave town. He is on the point of being exposed for an impressive list of minor misdeeds. A great pile of undertaker's promotional calendars, supposed to have been mailed a year before, still have not been mailed out, and the stamp money has gone for beer. At least two young women think they are engaged to him. Because the clacking of his own tongue can drown the ceaseless humming of the humdrum, he has told an elaborate and pointless series of lies...