Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deep through the streets. Army and National Guard amphibious craft cruised about picking up trapped householders from roofs and attics. One man paddled to safety girdled by an inner tube. Telephone service and power distribution blacked out. Scores of boats, from big freighters to cabin cruisers, ran aground or broke up. As the floods receded, they left a soggy jumble of ruined cars, fallen trees and utility lines, splintered glass and timber. Sobbed one homeless house wife: "Everything is gone. I don't even have a pair of shoes...
...understand you were born in a log cabin." "No, Mr. Chancellor," replies Lyndon. "You have me confused with Abe Lincoln. I was born in a manger...
Eight days in space will seem like a short mission to the men who go up in the Manned Orbiting Lab (MOL). They will stay in orbit a month or more. Working and walking around in a fairly roomy, pressurized cabin, they will wear ordinary street clothes. Occasionally they will don space suits, step outside for a stroll or a bit of research...
...born sculptor Costantino Nivola, for whose Long Island house he did murals. Mainly, he took refuge in solitude. For the past 15 years he summered in seclusion at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin-on the French Riviera. There he avoided autograph hunters in a 6-ft. by 15-ft. two-room cabin with a corrugated iron roof. Every day he sketched and exercised. Last week, while taking his twice-daily swim, he was seized by a heart attack and died before anyone could reach...
...prestige were involved; no manned U.S. spacecraft had ever failed to complete its planned mission. But Kraft, as ever, was the cool and deliberate flight engineer. He used every available moment to weigh every contingency. He ran a check of the spacecraft. All the key systems, such as cabin pressure, oxygen flow and cabin and suit temperature, were normal and running perfectly...