Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinary piece of furniture, it has been warmed by the posteriors of the most erudite inmates of the ivy-covered squirrel-cage. This indeterminable-hued divan has sustained the weight of the wearer of the blackest, thickest-rimmed glasses among Cambridge cognoscenti. It has also supported innumerable bodies beneath as many heads holding rimless spectacles, prime among these being Cairnie himself. For sitting comfort, the Grolier ottoman is approached only by the bootblack stand at Felix's Shoe Shine Spa, and there the conversation hardly runs beyond static monosyllables in praise of one Williams, a baseball player from San Diego...
Buried as it is beneath production numbers as tasteless as they are big, even Porter's music fails to take the curse off "Night and Day." Except for Eve Arden's husky version of "I'm Unlucky at Gambling," a little known example of Porter's sophisticated style, and Mary Martin's classic "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," the songs are better off on the radio or records...
...Suits & Coolers. The jet plane's controls, helped by hydraulic boosters against the powerful airstream, are devilishly sensitive. "The slightest movement hurls you over miles of the earth's surface as the ground blurs beneath you." Jet pilots normally wear "G-suits" to protect them from loss of consciousness. These operate automatically on the turns, keeping the pilots' blood from leaving their brains and concentrating in the lower parts of their bodies. "When you do a sudden steep turn, you are punched severely in the belly as the abdominal bladder inflates and the laces tighten around your...
...turning in the ticket to the H.A.A. which will furnish the requested number of seats in another section. The H.A.A. emphasizes the point that the exchange seats will not be quite as favorable as those in the regular undergraduate sections. Ticket sales begin today in the H.A.A. office beneath the Freshman Union...
...clear that beneath his urbanity he was deeply excited by his native land. The excitement is plainest in James's reflections on Richmond, which the aging genius approached with a young attitude: he looked for tragic poetry in the air of the Confederate capital. James's actual impression of Richmond-seen in all its poverty under a dreary winter snowfall- gains great force by contrast...