Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon after midnight, the cabin door of a C-135 Stratolifter slammed shut behind Major General Edwin Burba, commander of the U.S. Army's "Hell on Wheels" 2nd Armored Division...
...that bucolic 45-mile-long valley, 83 families live peacefully in humble cabins and fine log homes. Hunting rifles adorn their walls and fishing rods and boots occupy the corners of the rooms. In cabin after cabin, there is a color picture of the President of the United States. Yes, sir, says one oldtimer gesturing to a photo on the wall, "he was a great man, that Franklin D. Roosevelt." And over in the Dirty Shame Saloon, Grocery Store and Gas Station, Proprietor "Buster" Bray, formerly of San Francisco, says: "I wouldn't trade any of this for Third...
Carillon technique requires striking rounded oak keys with clenched fists while pumping on the foot pedals-yet tone is controlled by variations in touch, just as on a piano. In his octagonal playing cabin inside the 301-ft. Washington tower, Barnes is surrounded by bells on all sides, and the broad keyboard confronts him like a firing squad's rifles. Each carillon is unique, and because the 12-ton, E-flat bourdon bell in the Washington carillon is heavier and therefore deeper in pitch than its counterpart in Kansas, Barnes must rescore all his music a major third higher...
Died. Lyman Beecher Stowe, 82, grandson of Novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), grandnephew of Abolitionist Preacher Henry Ward Beecher, author of the lively 1934 account of the crusades and peccadilloes of his forebears, Saints, Sinners and Beechers; of pneumonia; in Fairfield, Conn...
Less Crowding. What is the argument all about? Aboard the 14 Boeing 720s that United has already converted into one-class service, five passengers are seated abreast instead of the uncomfortably crowded six in jet coach service; the cabin is free of the usual class-dividing partitions. The new seats are two inches wider than in coach, and the leg room between seat rows has been slightly increased. A one-class 720 seats 109 passengers, ten fewer than in the usual two classes. Three stewardesses serve the passengers instead of the four on mixed planes. The meals are free...