Word: stackful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite a strong showing by residents for the power plant at the August hearing, a "vast majority" of the people on the Hill are against the plant, Grady maintains. Still, he knows that even a stack of 350 petitions by Mission Hill residents strongly against the construction can't match an in-person turnout of RTH at a hearing...
...graduate student in American literature who'd just finished up a 516-page thesis on Thoreau. Hesford had started looking for a teaching job almost two years before, but so far almost 100 letters to schools as far away as Nigeria had managed to turn up only a thick stack of rejections. The months dragged on, and Hesford conscientiously saved his rejection letters, took to drinking paper cupfuls of Mogen David wine during undergraduate tutorials and waited for Commencement. Then came a break--an offer from Birzelt College in Israeli-occupied Jordan to teach English to Palestinian refugees...
...Cate occasionally overstates his case, he does not stack the evidence. All the pieces of the puzzle are there. The reader must put it together if he wants to find the answer to Balzac's potentially prophetic question: "What will become of the world when all women are like George Sand...
...Trekkies' convention, all the TV actors were in Chicago to represent such Enterprise stalwarts as Dr. Leonard McCoy, who in one episode contracted an incurable disease and fell in love with the green high priestess of a doomed planetoid; Chief Engineer Scott ("Scotty"), for whom "relaxation is a stack of technical journals"; Lieut. Uhura, the black female communications officer who sings soprano for relaxation; and Ensign Chekov, the Russian pilot. The stars were greeted by standing ovations...
Back at the boat house, the women heaved the boats out of the water and carried them over their heads to stack them inside. It was after nine now, and people were milling around, making plans for breakfast, chatting with Parker, greeting Claudia Schneider--who had been condemned to the erg for the morning workout. Maggie was off in the shadows of the stacked boats, removing the gloves and gingerly taking off the bandages. Her hands hurt badly, they were killing her. But she couldn't tell anybody. No one could know...