Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salvage from the Air Force's defunct Navaho missile program-kept Nautilus on course and on depth, gave its captain instant readings of position. Ten sound-detection devices measured the distance to the ice above and the thickness of the ice while three other devices sounded the sea bed. Findings: polar ice is generally about 12 ft. thick, although some ridges bulged down 50 ft. or more. Crew comforts were also measuring up: the sub's crew was treated to more than 30 movies, e.g., Katharine Hepburn in Desk Set, and cribbage, chess and acey-deucey tournaments were...
...Joyce, a onetime airline hostess, and son Kevin, 9, Boling soon was soaking in a hot bath, relaxing under an alcohol rubdown, then slipped gratefully into bed. He was $3,140 richer for the flight ($1,000 of the money pledged to the Seventh-day Adventists) because properly proud Beech Aircraft had guaranteed $1,000 for his reaching Seattle and $10 for every mile beyond. But for Pat Boling there was a greater satisfaction. Said he: "Those were the best hours of my life. Everyone likes to see his plans come true...
...Bystander is a slick novel, but its precision can't quite make up for the fact that a few things in this world do transpire outside the double-bed. The most effective scene is Anthony's gambling; the least effective are Anthony's introspective monologues. Some of the descriptive passages are pat and common coin from the American Weekly and the Advocate. The pages are littered with italicized French terms. Perhaps because the style is adopted, it is self-conscious. Guerard has the disturbing habit of affirming himself in the middle of a sentence with a superflous...
...memory of the massacre there, grim tales of the revolt continued to come to light. In Athens a Belgian reported how the body of Nuri's son Sabah was dragged through the streets by a mob waving knives and portraits of Egypt's Nasser. And from his bed in Amman, 36-year-old British-trained General Sadiq Shara recited the gruesome events that took place around the swank New Baghdad Hotel...
True Blue Pencil. In Brisbane, Australia, customs men pounced on copies of a book called To Bed on Thursdays, discovered that it was the memoirs of an English editor whose paper went to press on Thursday nights...