Word: blanket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crowd got the thrills it came for. Tearing along at 50 m.p.h., one car lost a rear wheel, dragged 100 yards on its axle before it stopped. The crash broke the fuel tank, spewed gas along the track. Friction set the fuel on fire, leaving a 100-yd. blanket of flame along the right of way. The driver escaped. So did another whose car later spun out of control at 40 m.p.h., crashed head-on into an entrance gate. A Soldier Field electrician who was caught in the crush was less fortunate; he was carried off with a fractured skull...
...caked with dust, and armed with a good insight into the way General Walker works, I talked with some headquarters sources and turned in. I slept on the floor of a schoolhouse, which had been turned into a correspondents' billet, and I was lucky enough to get one blanket for bedding...
...raised on the stretcher to take a piece of food or chocolate somebody offered him. He was wearing a T-shirt, they reported, and was not wounded above the waist, as far as they could tell, but he was covered from the waist down by a blanket...
...McCarthyism. Both governors were bluntly critical; both thought an investigation of subversives in Government was needed, but not McCarthy's way. Said Duff: "His charges have not been sufficiently documented, in view of the seriousness of their character. I personally feel it is unwise to make random, blanket charges...
...radio contact between the search parties; mist and night fog hampered visibility. But toward the end of the second day, not far from the Navy captain's fix, the Coast Guard came on an oil slick and scraps of tangled metal. Close by floated a piece of blue blanket bearing the stencil "N.W." and bits of human bodies-all that remained of U.S. commercial aviation's worst air disaster...