Word: stack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dock Commander Higbee found a puddle of oil, threw a cigaret in it, watched it blaze, ordered a coxswain to put it out. Then on a dry lumber stack near by he pinned his card: "Dear Watchman: I was here; where were...
...entered the Nanty Glo State Bank across the street. In Suchman's jewelry store, a few doors from the bank, a miner's wife looked over the slim stock of watches, hunting a gift for her soldier son. The pillar of smoke that came from the main stack of the Heisley mine (one of the three within the town's limits) fused into the rain, flattened, hung over the landscape in a grey pall. The hands of the clock outside the window of Such man's jewelry store moved...
...August 1941, Prime Minister Churchill visited his namesake vessel, a former U.S. four-stack destroyer, and promised to come aboard again if the Churchill ever sank a U-boat. The destroyer's crew did not forget. One night last June, as the Churchill patrolled off Venezuela, a dark shape loomed ahead. The battle signal sounded. Men sprang to action stations. The Churchill swerved, tried to ram the foe. Luckily, she missed. What looked like a hulking U-boat turned out to be tiny Lasola Island, ten feet high, 200 feet long...
...course, on paper, the Ulenmen just don't stack up against the Hanoverlans, who have beaten Navy and swamped Columbia, both of whom have triumphed over the Crimson swimmers. They also hold victories over Army and Pennsylvania, but suffered a worse beating at the hands of Princeton than did the Cambridgeites...
Dopesters thought that the change would make but little difference in the April election. Same day, standing in front of a huge, nude painting of the birth of Venus in the Morrison Hotel's Mural Room, Ed Kelly had been handed a 6-ft. stack of petitions by his ward heelers re-nominating him as Democratic candidate for Mayor. Ed Kelly had said: "There comes a time in every man's life when he says, 'I've been in long enough, let's give someone else a chance.' But that time...