Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebellion was restrained and it seemed blacks had the situation more in hand than did the frenzied authorities. "They made it sound like a big thing," one young worker hanging out by Sammie's said later in the week, "but it wasn't shit." He pointed to a big pile of rubble from a building destroyed by urban-renewal, saying television cameramen had been photographing it as "riot damage...
Motorists approaching an entrance ramp along Massachusetts' well-traveled Route 128 recently were pleasantly surprised at the ease with which they could enter the expressway. Instead of the usual pile-up along the ramp, car after car moved effortlessly into the mainstream of traffic. Drivers barely glanced back to look for an opening. They did not have to. Like the flashlight of a theater usher, moving green lights at the edge of the ramp led them surely and safely up and out onto the highway...
...Gottlieb is a rich retired folk singer who made his pile as a member of the once popular Limeliters. A year ago, Gottlieb decided that he could afford to give away his 30-acre Morning Star ranch near San Francisco. He literally deeded the place to God and turned it into a commune for the world's "religious people...
...went up some steps and from a raised spot watched the names pile up. And in the background, the Capitol shining as brightly as ever. I looked to my left, and I saw people who just kept coming, one after another every few yards. Here it was 3:30 a.m., and it seemed a certainty that there would be a lag. But these people just kept coming, and they were to march into view there for another 28 hours without a letup. Each one with a name...
...Italians make up one-fourth of the work force at the giant Volkswagen plant. They live in spartan company-owned rooms (rent: $10 a month) in a complex known as "the Italian village," grumble about the unfriendliness of German girls and at Christmas time, laden with gifts, pile aboard special trains for the annual visit home...