Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grandpa Storm hates to see Alaska's wealth drained away by "outside" (Stateside) capitalists. To him Alaska is the last frontier of both the nation's natural wealth and the individual's freedom. He lives in an old cabin, runs a high-minded weekly, and fights with Grandpa Kennedy for the mind of beautiful Christine. In Author Ferber's hands, the battle is unequal. Not only does Christine refuse to marry the rich man's son Kennedy has in mind for her, but it is also reasonably clear that a part-Eskimo pilot, one Ross...
...dropped through the fragile bomb-bay doors, which flapped open, fell out of the B-47. Somehow Kulka managed to catch hold of something-he cannot remember what it was-and hung on for his life in the empty bomb bay in the whistling wind. Back in the flight cabin, Koehler heard a rumble, and Copilot Charles Woodruff idly noticed a shock wave radiating on the ground. "Just like a concussion wave from a bomb," Woodruff told himself. Then, with a shock, he realized what had happened. Captain Koehler closed the bomb-bay doors and reported to his flight leader...
...Hervey s, the trip to the mainland was a 63-hour nightmare. The convicts, brutalized by life on Isabela, tore through the yacht with savage greed. They gorged themselves, fouled the cabins, stole everything they could find from cash to toothbrushes. Only after one of the wild-eyed escapees broke into the Herveys' cabin was a semblance of order restored. A young convict called a ship's meeting, delivered a ringing oration pledging that he and his comrades would mend their ways if their escape succeeded. He got his fellow convicts to sing Ecuador's national anthem...
Music on Request. Farrell had already experienced weightlessness in ten parabolic curve maneuvers in a supersonic F-Q4-C. He was selected for the space-cabin test because he seemed to have just the right steady temperament. At first, in his cell, he was tense, but soon settled into the routine. He could not see out. Day after day he heard no human voice; the only sound available was recorded music which he could request (his preference: musical comedy, especially Gershwin and Cole Porter...
Farrell could talk to the outside. Every now and then he pressed a microphone button, began: "Space cabin to ground. I am now transmitting." His reports of the temperature in the cabin and how he felt were tape recorded. Everything he did and said was timed. Continuous recordings of his pulse and breathing could be matched against the kinescope showing his activities and other recordings of temperature, humidity...