Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the Big Four's Foreign Ministers bogged down in deadlocks at Paris last week, Jimmy Byrnes leaned forward in his armchair. He eyed the pile of papers before him on the green-topped table and waved aside the conflicts they contained. "Gentlemen," he smiled, "it appears that we all feel we cannot trust each other on small problems. Let us see if we cannot trust each other on big ones...
...similar trickery, beemen can lure their bees to almost any flower. Red clover, for instance, is not particularly attractive. But if a few bees are fed syrup from a small dish resting on a pile of red clover blossoms, their dances and scent incite other bees to pollenate red clover, increasing its crop of seed...
...bedside carpet is important and must be gratifying to the bare feet. Persians, Kermans and Kashans lack the necessary thickness of pile. A subdued Shiraz would fulfil most people's requirements, though leptoforms [delicate people] may require something with a more stimulating pattern, say a Tabriz...
...Kuester ploughed 20 acres of oat land in 18 hours-something like making a 500-mile automobile trip in ten hours. By the second week in April the Kuesters' 47 acres of oats were green and blowing, an inch or so high, in a wind that made people pile on jackets...
...children's father but their "elder brother." He dyed his hair and beard. He replaced his aging friends with younger men. He made a bonfire of all the letters he had kept, exclaiming as they blazed: "Would to God every letter I had ever written was on that pile...