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Word: pilings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fire was reported at 6:22 p.m. when smoke emerged from the fifth-floor bathroom of Standish Hall C-Entry. Students in the seven-member suite quickly extinguished the fire, which caused no damage to the bathroom. Police found a pile of newspapers lying on top of a beer keg where the fire started, police said...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko, | Title: Officials Suspect Prank in Winthrop Fire | 11/10/1984 | See Source »

...like a huge switch was thrown," exulted Mondale in an interview with TIME. "Enormous crowds, but not just that; the nature of the crowds too. Every time you shake hands, it's like a pile-up on the goal line. Several hundred people trying to get to you. I've never experienced anything like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walter Mondale: Getting a Second Look | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...solitary confinement and forced to confess to consorting with imperialists. Condemned to virtual house arrest, Padilla continued working as a translator until, through American intercession, he was allowed to seek exile in the U.S. in 1980. He smuggled out the only unconfiscated copy of this manuscript under a pile of letters in his carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Sep. 24, 1984 | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...money than one needs, a handsome percentage of the surplus is expected to be given first to God, second to Dallas. Money Titans Clint Murchison Sr. and Jr. used to say, "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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Off for the G.O.P. | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...covered with with bland wall-to-wall carpeting that matches the sedate scene inside. Cubicles line the walls, at one point breaking the room's otherwise roaring with glee. Buckner's locker is situated at the center of the room and as he pranced about, I noticed a pile of stills on his stool. He has an uncanny resemblance to photographs of Deep Throat's Harry Reems Buckner would autograph them when he found the time...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Thinking Pennant | 8/17/1984 | See Source »

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