Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever inner agonies had assailed 21-year-old Eileen Gibson, known as "Gay," they were forever resolved in the early morning of Oct. 18. Ninety miles off the coast of Portuguese Guinea, she was pushed through a porthole into the ocean -perhaps alive, perhaps dead-from a first-class cabin on "B" deck of the steamship Durban Castle. Eight days later, when the Durban Castle put into Southampton, detectives came aboard and arrested James Camb, a deck steward, for the murder of Eileen Gibson...
...creeping over the New England landscape this winter and obligingly carrying rubbernecks to the heights of mountain ranges. The "Sno-Cat", a cabin cruiser on tractor treads, carries sightseers up the slopes to spectacular panoramas that were once granted only to skiers...
...firsthand knowledge of London's low life was to enrich Dickens' Oliver Twist for generations of readers (Cruikshank's Fagin, G. K. Chesterton once remarked, looked as if Fagin himself had done it). Few could recall Cruikshank's later illustrations for Uncle Tom's Cabin or the series of etchings entitled simply The Bottle, in which he did penance for the wild joys of his youth...
Team members knocked away at their tendencies toward over-specialization, working out of their Jackson Cabin for the first few days of the mid-term break. The practice session then officially broke up, as the entire team fanned through the Green and White Mountains to take cracks at the bevy of individual competitions that the season offers...
With the termination of their exams, members of the Crimson ski team will head for their cabin at Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire, where they will be groomed for between-term events by varsity coach Bill Halsey...