Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blanket." Farouk is a lonely man who would like to be gregarious but does not have the knack for it. He used to go to small cocktail parties given by an old American friend, but found that the other guests would freeze up in his presence and stand around silently. Finally he said to his host: "I'm not coming any more because I am a wet blanket...
...most abundant minerals in the earth's crust, and the U.S. abounds in titanium-bearing ore. But turning it into metal is an immensely difficult process. It reacts so violently with oxygen that the ingots must be melted in a vacuum, or under a blanket of inert...
Then Joy advanced a new argument. It is not only the ground positions that should be considered, he said; allied air and naval strength now blanket all of North Korea up to the Yalu. In view of this, the U.N. would actually be justified in demanding a cease-fire line considerably to the north of its forward positions on the ground. The Red radio exaggerated Joy's talking point, made it sound as if the U.N. formally demanded a truce line far north of the front-line positions (which it does not). According to the Peking radio, Nam rejected...
Four hours later, Dr. Shultz found Sara lying on a blanket on a table in a log cabin. She was conscious. He gave her a sedative and scrubbed up while his instruments boiled on the wood stove. Two men held gas lanterns and two flashlights while he operated. It was a bad fracture: many pieces of bone, including a large part of the eye socket, were pressed in on the brain...
...Water Jag. The shortest interrogation ran three hours, several lasted a grueling 15. Officially, prisoners slept between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., but Stypulkowski was hauled out of bed 69 nights out of 70. Sleep at any time was a virtual miracle. A lumpy mattress and a single blanket left him aching and cold. By prison rules, hands had to be kept outside the blanket, and a naked light bulb was always trained on his head. Any attempt to tuck in frozen fingers or face away from the light brought a barked reprimand from the guard at the peephole...