Word: stacking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Together they barricaded Baross Street and cut out an escape route in the cellar of the restaurant. "It was a funny time," says Ferenc. "The owner of the restaurant and everyone else had left, leaving his wine bottles on the shelf. Several were empty, but beside them was a stack of money, the exact price of each bottle...
...Artist Chaliapin, who handled rifles long before he painted them, says there's nothing to it; the trick is to get the stacking swivels properly linked. For Chaliapin's painted version (left) and a genuine Marine Corps stack, see cuts...
...taken to drink. One of Allen's boyhood memories is of himself and his younger brother piloting the old man home after an all-day binge: "We looked like two sardines guiding an unsteady Moby Dick into port." He took an after-school job as runner and stack boy at the Boston Public Library at 60? a night. At a library employees' show, he did a juggling act that wowed his fellow workers. Soon he was haunting the dingy headquarters of a local amateur-night impresario...
...stack of pamphlets is in three piles. The first pile contains one-sixth of them, the second pile several fifths of them, and the third pile contains six. What is the total number of pamphlets...
...Santa Claus gave us little presents. But by the age of nine we discovered that the Santa at Gimbel's gave bigger, better things away. And any-how the line was shorter. At age twelve we moved into an apartment house so we knew damn well that this chimney-stack stuff was a farce...