Word: comber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when I was almost thirty, I began to make my living from writing." Hughes had been a long time getting through college. He graduated in 1929, and had worked in a hat store, on a truck farm, in a flower shop, and as a doorman, second cook, waiter, beach-comber, bum, and seaman, on the way. In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel, Not Without Laughter, which earned him a $400 award, which was what he had in 1929 when he lost his patron and decided to go to Haiti for a while...
...enormous market-25 million people, he believed, were ready for mechanical servants which could be plugged into a light socket: coffeepots, irons, toasters, dishwashers, ranges, home freezers, alarm-clock radios. Charlie Wilson, first in the unfamiliar world of sales, then back in the world of production, rode the rising comber of G.E. appliances...
...ground and were heard as explosive bangs. Colonel Franklin Paul, chief of the Air Materiel Command's Flight Test Division, explained that a speedboat making a sharp turn does somewhat the same thing. Its normal bow wave, increased by the pressure of the turn, grows into a foaming comber...