Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worm-ridden period furniture, a hall jammed with bottles of curdled milk and old clothes piled higher than a man's shoulders. A menagerie of budgereegahs, canaries, pigeons, dogs and cats had added their meed to the midden. Cowering in a corner, covered only by a tattered red blanket, hunched the man who had screamed at the window. His matted beard reached his knees. The nails of his toes and fingers curled in uncut proliferation. The police soon identified him as "young Harry Tucker," a nephew reported to have died or left England 30 years...
This saintly behavior of hard-boiled corporations is a subject of amazed debate among AEC men. Some maintain that patriotism is an important factor. Others believe the contractors' enthusiasm comes largely from far-sighted self-interest. Under the AEC's blanket of secrecy, a whole new technology is developing, as important as steel or electricity. The only way that an ambitious corporation can find out what is going on is by ducking under the blanket where the secrets are. There is prestige involved, too, and a company that has a big AEC contract finds it easier to recruit...
Office? Upon arrival, Teply was taken to the courtyard, where he saw a body sprawled out under a blanket. A security agent pulled back the cover, and Teply, with a shock, recognized the pajama-clad corpse of Dr. Masaryk. "I ordered one of the policemen to open the pajamas, and noticed all over the body traces of blows and scratches that appeared to be marks of violence. I saw in the nape of the neck the mark of a wound, probably made by a projectile of 7.65-mm. caliber. I thought: 'This is infamous, a bestial assassination...
...sprawling marble Palazzo delle Esposizioni to house it. To fill the 2½ kilometers of wall space they arranged a big retrospective of 19th and 20th century Italian art, asked Italy's 250 top painters and sculptors to send an average of four works apiece, issued a blanket invitation to every other brush and chisel wielder in Italy to try his luck with the show's jury...
...screamed, while prison guards prodded him with bamboo poles to silence him. He grew more & more irrational. One night, after screaming for about an hour, he became quiet, and the Reds discovered that they could no longer hurt Dr. William Wallace. His body was hanging from a strip of blanket tied to the top of his cell door...