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• n  a stack of hay

• Smith crushed his skull with a bat, stole his clothes, stuffed the corpse in a haystack and made off atop the dead Turk's horse, finding his way back to Europe along the ancient .
• Claude Monet: I feel like I've seen this haystack before.
• One summer day in 1806 a band of pious students at Williams College got caught in a thundershower, huddled under a haystack to keep dry and held a prayer meeting.

• hayrick
• rick

News & Articles

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• Bennington Banner: Letters: Haystack/Hermitage Club good for Mount Snow - Bennington Banner
  Mount Snow’s management’s recent edict barring its employees from having any affiliation with Haystack/Hermitage Club is based on the faulty premise that somehow the success of Haystack/Hermitage Club is coming at the expense of Mount Snow. In fact, the complete opposite is true.
  June 12, 2013 - Bennington Banner
• Dataminr raises $30M to keep surfacing the most significant tweets
  The needle-and-haystack analogy of finding important insights inside big data certainly applies to tweets, and Dataminr, one service that find the needles in the Twitter firehose, just got more venture funding.
  June 12, 2013 - GigaOM
• Video: NSA surveillance programs are "legal," Ruppersberger says
  Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters following a briefing on leaked NSA surveillance programs that mass databases are required because "if you have to find a needle in a haystack, you need the haystack."
  June 11, 2013 - CBS News

Quotes

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• Vijay Mallya in ITV.com
  It's like trying to pick a needle from a haystack, but we are now going to launch a nationwide programme in India to identify young talent and this is a pretty complex exercise,he said. "It involves several karting tracks all over the...
• Bob White in Guardian Unlimited
  It was like a needle in a haystack,White said.
• Hal Rogers in FOXNews
  The 11 million containers that transit the ports every year (are) an enormous moving haystack that could conceal a deadly needle,said Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky.