Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strangely for simple aviation enthusiasts. Around 2 a.m., they crept quietly along the barbed-wire fence of the sleepy airport, sneaked on to the field without alarming the Communist state-security police, the MVD-trained Bezpieka. They got to the plane, turned over the engine and crowded into the cabin...
Fate signed Harry Chippendale aboard his first whaler. He was born in the cabin of his father's ship, two days off St. Helena, a great rendezvous of the whaling trade, where Harry's father later served as U.S. consul...
...months after the President proclaimed a national emergency, there is no trace of stern austerity, though the nation is both fighting a big war and mobilizing against the threat of a bigger one. Stores still bulge with everything from aluminum ski poles at $7.95 a pair to metal-hulled cabin cruisers at $5,500 each. Most corporate profits are at record-breaking levels or close to it. So are prices-and so too are wages. Instead of becoming a garrison state, the U.S. could tell itself-for the moment, at least -that it had never had it so good...
...backhand slaps itself. The house was locked; Internal Revenue agents had seized it as part payment of a $161,000 back income tax bill. Where was the rest of the money coming from? Virginia had no idea. Said she, huffing off to spend the night in a tourist cabin, "I never worked in my life...
Four hours later, Dr. Shultz found Sara lying on a blanket on a table in a log cabin. She was conscious. He gave her a sedative and scrubbed up while his instruments boiled on the wood stove. Two men held gas lanterns and two flashlights while he operated. It was a bad fracture: many pieces of bone, including a large part of the eye socket, were pressed in on the brain...