Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well for serving two-year terms in the harsh climate, where daytime temperatures often top 115°. A junior sergeant serving in Djibouti can make nearly $20,000 a year, up to four times what he might earn in France. "They come here to serve their time, make their pile for a house or plot of ground back home, and then leave with it," says a British shipping agent who has lived in Djibouti many years. "They get rich and Djibouti gets nothing. That's not enlightened colonialism. It's a bloody...
KAHN WEAVES all of these different contests into a neat pile of friendly but telling stories, a chronicle of a baseball season spent roaming the country with the boys and the boys-turned-men who make up baseball. There is Walter O'Malley, cigar-puffing grandee of the Los Angeles Dodgers. And Stan Musial, of the .330 lifetime average and undying fame. Then there is Artie Wilson of the Negro Leagues, who outshone Jackie Robinson and won only mildly-regretted obscurity, and Early Wynn, the Hall of Fame pitcher who threw at the head of any batter who stood between...
Suddenly, high up on Usher Top Mountain, hundreds of feet above the river, everything in the darkened forest turned silent. Chapman pulled his Smith & Wesson .38-cal. Chiefs Special from his shoulder holster. At 2:10 a.m. Sandy led him to a pile of wet leaves and began wagging her tail. Beneath the foliage, Ray was lying on his back with his arms straight out, as though he had been crucified...
...like "May Day" in that they exhibit two groups of dancers on stage who take no note of one another. In "Black Breakfast" Michael Mao and Elizabeth Mallinckrodt cavort on and off, first mindlessly motioning like rock dancers, then dressing up to parade as nobility. They end dumping their pile of costumes on the head of Sally Lewiecki, who throughout lies inertly on a black coffin-like box, showing us only her chalk-white face and her hands gesturing like non-human flesh...
...rubber-softening agent during manufacture, and steel belting, and to make an oatmeal-like material that can be mixed with hard coal to provide smooth-burning fuel for generating electricity. The salvager's price: 390 to $5 a tire, or as much as $9 million for the whole pile...