cartloads

Larger severance payments do exist, but they go to people who are fired by large companies in so-called charrettes (meaning "cartloads," reminiscent of the cartloads of people sent to the guillotine during the revolution).

MAIL CALL

So many cartloads of bones were dumped that the land is said to have risen high enough to support a windmill.

Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status

Insulating primary care providers from indirect commercial influence seems preposterously difficult in a world in which pharmaceutical manufacturers market directly to patients, and ply doctors with literally cartloads of free samples, swag, and probably anything else they can foist on them.

Wonk Room » Ignagni: Government Role In Health Care Is Fine…As Long As It’s For Supporting Health Insurance Industry

I look for elderly women armed with coupons, bratty kids that can't make up their minds, cartloads of groceries, someone pondering a label with a look of earnest inquiry, all the usual symptoms, clear-cut signs of an interminably slow line.

Supermarket Limbo

An earnest-looking Napolitano appeared in a "see something, say something" public-service announcement at the height of the holiday season that aired near checkout stands for Walmart shoppers as they waited to ring up cartloads of plastic goodness.

G.W. Schulz: 'Big Sister' Continues Push for Suspicious Activity Program

It calls for experience, confidence and a remarkable degree of natural poise – qualities that these two have in cartloads.

Scott Hamilton and Alan Barnes: Hi-Ya

"In addition to the rivalry between local and foreign herds, people gathered straw by the cartloads to sell further south." says Djahowa Boukari, a younger herder of 47 years.

Louis Belanger: On the front lines of the war against hunger in Niger

Readers saw their own worst fears reflected, magnified, and distorted in her pages in nightmare images of torment and humiliation when Wang is finally forced to find work as a rickshaw puller or join a night shift of men dragging cartloads of heavy goods to the city docks:

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA

Once upon a time in the deep, dark past, I used to receive cartloads of free books in the mail.

Promo Idea for Authors and Publishers

Out in an open field were a number of stakes and two cartloads of wood drawn by donkeys.

WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL