Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even this is denied Princetonians on their biggest weekend, the one covering the Harvard or Yale game. This is the time when alumni choose to return and sleep aloft in their old clubs, and the College has forbidden any parties lest the grads be disturbed by first-floor merriment...
...luxurious new trains, buses, steamships and airliners built and abuilding. Designer Dreyfuss, who had conceived the New York Central's first modern 20th Century trains, had many a supermodern ocean liner interior on the boards. Designer Teague's cozy lounges, snack bars and dressing rooms were already aloft in Boeing's new Stratocruiser. Not even the U.S. toilet had been neglected. Thanks to Designer Dreyfuss and the Crane Co., it was now available in form-fitting shapes...
...Philadelphia stable where the family vegetable cart was stored, he practiced earnestly with oranges and lemons. But the elder Dukinfield took a dark view of his son's ambition, and once he went as far as to tan him for bruising a lemon. Incensed beyond containment, William climbed aloft in the stable one day and dropped a large box on his father's head. Then he left home, never to return...
Also without qualms was Charley Lupica of Cleveland, who swore that he would sit on a flagpole until the Indians moved into first place in the American League. Last week the Indians were in third place and Charley was still aloft, on a platform fitted out with a television set, a down-filled mattress and a telephone...
...written: "I want a modest funeral, without speeches and without flowers..." The nation he had inspired planned it differently. The plane from Vienna bearing Herzl's body was met at the Lydda airport by an honor guard of Israeli soldiers, sailors and air force men holding aloft gleaming, unsheathed sabers. The metal coffin, encased in a wooden box and covered with a prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem which had been...