Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned our attention to getting clear the boat, the only boat left us, with which we could expect to escape. We succeeded in getting her out without injury, although the ship was waterlogged and fast falling upon her side. In the meantime the steward had twice entered the cabin and at his peril had brought out the trunks of the Captain and mate and also two quadrants and two of Bowdiches Practical Navigators. These, with the two compasses taken from the binnacle, was all that we had an opportunity of getting into the boat, and get in ourselves, when...
Unlike Uncle Tom's Cabin or The Jungle, bestsellers that affected their times, the fiction chartbusters of the '70s seem tame indeed. Their mission, and their success, lies in anesthetizing the audience until it has only enough energy to do one thing: turn the page. Sutherland notes that the top ten novels of the '70s sold twice as many copies as the top ten of the 1960s. In this thirsty epoch, more readers than ever seem to need their psychic spirits. -By J.D. Reed
Living aboard Salyut brought other hazards. In 1977, when Cosmonaut Georgi Grechko took a "space walk" outside the ship to look for some suspected damage, he suddenly saw his companion, Yuri Romanenko, drifting by. Romanenko, untethered to the spacecraft, had accidentally floated out of the cabin. Grechko caught Romanenko just as he was about to spin off into the void. On another flight, cosmonauts complained of repeated headaches. It turned out carbon dioxide was building up to dangerous levels in the cabin. The problem was solved by changing the air purifiers more often...
...talented woman with Horne's pigmentation. They finally decided that she was light enough to pass for a Latin. Horne insisted that she was dark enough to be what she was, a black. Perplexed, the studio bosses put her into two all-black films, Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky, and otherwise gave her bit roles so small that they could be excised easily when the movies played in the South. It was not until 1969 that she played a major character in a major movie, the madam of a whorehouse and Richard Widmark's lover...
There were also a few mi nor glitches. During the first "night" in space-actually they saw the sun rise and set once during every 90-min. orbit-Young and Crippen complained about a chill in the cabin. The temperature had drooped to 37° F. "I was ready to break out the long undies," joked one of the frozen astronauts. The problem was quickly fixed with a signal from earth that pumped warm water into the cabin's temperature control system. Young and Crippen had less luck fixing a faulty flight data recorder that had stopped mysteriously. They...