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Word: pilings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst drubbing of the season. Haskell of Lowell scored within a minute of the center jump, and went on to pile up 22 points. Haskell's total of points so far, 73, makes him league high-scorer by a wide margin. Hatton accounted for 16 of the Bellboys' points, while Clapp and Schacht led the ill-fated Navy squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civilian Teams Take Lead In Intramural League Play | 1/9/1945 | See Source »

...like these two, their presence will have you in stitches. They pile in gags thick and fast and never let you stop laughing until their act goes off. In the same field as Olsen and Johnson is another bellylaugh - provoking trio, Willy, West, and McGinty, who do two explosive acts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Laffing Room Only" | 12/12/1944 | See Source »

...Laughed At." An institution itself, housed in offices as gloomy, well polished, and oak-paneled as any at Whitehall, Punch is in a position to laugh at other Empire institutions. Its personal concession to the war consists of a well-stacked pile of sandbags behind a wall of corrugated iron to protect its handsome entrance at 10 Bouverie St. But behind the door Editor Edmund George Valpy Knox, 63, with a staff of three, supervises the production of his magazine with little change from his peacetime routine. Paper rationing has cut Punch's pages to 28 an issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Punch at War | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...Groups. Montgomery had two armies, the British First, the Canadian First. "Jake" Devers had two, the U.S. Seventh, the French Second. Bradley had three: William Simpson's Ninth, a newcomer on the front; Courtney Hodges' First (the infantry heavyweight) and George Patton's Third (the armored pile driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: Destroy the Enemy | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

Later Joy and Cervo spotted more Germans in a hedge. "I shouted 'Oop mop' and out came Jerries. . . . When we finished clearing up the hedge, we saw more and bigger foxholes, some of them with mortars. We made the Jerries bring out their weapons and pile them, until we had 49 Jerries. . . . [The prisoners] glared at us and I glared back and shouted 'Mop oop!' and we brought back our souvenirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Mop Oop! | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

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