Word: cabinent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Teletype room just behind the flight deck, complete with a complicated National Security Agency decoding machine. Ike, who could only receive brief voice messages in the old Columbine, can now receive Teletype messages of any length during flight, including top-secret material. Another important improvement is a more efficient cabin pressurization system, to relieve the strain on Mamie's heart, slightly damaged by rheumatic fever in childhood...
...Bullet Is Waiting (Welsch; Columbia). In old-fashioned movies, when an innocent girl was trapped with two desperate men in a cabin miles from anywhere, the bad guy made his grab and wound up on a slab, while the good guy took the lady to the preacher. But times have changed. In this picture, for instance the cabin serves as a sort of alchemical vessel in which all the characters are essentially transformed. As a matter of fact after sitting in that cabin for about 85 minutes the moviegoer may never be the same again, either...
Stewpans & Silverware. Ho Chi Minh, dedicated Communist, is a matchless interplay of ruthlessness and guile. Before he was nine, in the central Viet Nam province of Nghean, Ho was carrying messages for his father's anti-French underground.* In 1911 he shipped out of Indo-China as a cabin boy on a French vessel, so that he could learn the foreign techniques of revolution and "come back to help my countrymen." He was not yet a Marxist, but already showed signs of an ascetic, fanatic single-mindedness...
...national institution 80 years ago, widely acclaimed as the greatest preacher "since Paul preached on the Hill of Mars." Member of a famous evangelical family (Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, was his sister), he had packed in the parishioners at Brooklyn's big Plymouth Church for 23 years. Then, at 57, and at the peak of his influence, he was accused of practicing what he preached against. "On the night of July 3, 1870,'' writes Author Robert Shaplen. "Elizabeth Richards Tilton, a small, dark-haired woman of 35, the mother of four...
...thirtieth of a second three of the forward seats, one of them with a passenger, moved upward toward the break in the roof. The next row of seats followed close behind. As the "suction wave" raced down the cabin, passengers and seats flew out into space. In two seconds, the scientists figured, the cabin of Yoke Peter must have been empty...