Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blips & Survival. At .0615, Kittinger climbed onto a flat-bed truck and squeezed into a small gondola that was strung from a huge plastic balloon. Harnessed on his back was an elaborate instrument kit (14-channel tape recorder for voice, heartbeat and respiration rates, time blips, temperature, etc.). On his left wrist were a rear-view mirror, a small box with built-in altimeter and stopwatch, and a survival knife and scabbard. To one leg was strapped a tiny receiver-transmitter radio, and on his back were two parachutes and an alternate oxygen system...
Gene Robertson hadn't left his room for three days. In fact, he only got out of bed to exercise (touch your toes ten times, do seven push-ups) and to eat Chinese food which his roommate brought...
...lost the game," he continued, "the whole pattern came clear. The whole dull routine, class to class, book to book, learn a few facts and bull your way through an exam which doesn't make sense anyway. I decided to give it up for awhile, to stay in bed and read some books carefully and listen to some records...
Buttons & Pearls. Pearlers have long known about Australia's big shells. Before World War II, Japanese divers worked the beds, and the export of pearl shells reached $1,000,000 annually. The war wrecked the industry. Though the Australian government tried promoting the shells, the diving is dangerous (five divers were killed in one null bed alone last year), and cheap plastic buttons have all but ruined the market for those of expensive (up to $2 for a set of six nickel-sized buttons) mother-of-pearl...
Dilworth ran back to his room, undressed, and flung himself on the bed. As he peered out from his cashmere blanket, waiting for the Lowell House bells to begin, he suddenly thought he understood what had motivated Dali to paint The Last Supper...