Word: attics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unrelated except as another microcosm of a nation brooding over defeat in a state of moral and spiritual collapse. The inmates cling to the fiction that during five long years just one heroic officer has escaped. Actually, he is a tuberculous wreck, coughing his life away in an attic hiding place overhead. The only truly noble officer so despises his fellow prisoners that he spends most of his time in the isolation of a large makeshift box, reading...
...drunk at a debutante party and accidentally drove his date to her death. That time, Smith was convicted of negligent homicide and reckless driving. This time, using a search warrant, the cops nabbed Smith and his roommate for possession of marijuana, which they said was stashed in his attic, a suitcase and a bureau drawer...
...filled-in island of thorn in the Thames River, it has over the centuries become a pantheon, the sacred environs where an enlightened empire crowns its kings and queens, and where common folk can pray. With its crowded multitude of funeral statuary, the Abbey is a kind of spiritual attic containing mementos of whatever is forever England...
...school thesis. At Harvard Business School in the early 1950s, Diebold helped prepare a report on the new science of automating factories. He used it as the basis for a book, Automation, which helped popularize both the word and the author. Then he set up a firm in the attic of his father's house in Weehawken, NJ. Ultimately Engineer Diebold hired businessmen and technicians to work for him while he supervised his firm's growth and actively promoted his ideas and himself. He is currently selling advice to Lockheed, Du Pont, Agfa, Xerox, IBM, Allstate Insurance, Philips...
According to Robert A. Geyer, associate professor of Nutrition, the chase began at about 3 a.m. Tuesday when these monkeys apparently pushed out the wire screen covering one side of their wooden crate. They were soon swinging on the rafters and pipes in the attic of the one-story Railway Air Express Terminal...