Word: denned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, there were presidential responsibilities. A once-a-day plane brought top-priority papers from Washington; the President considered them, a lapful at a time, while sunning on the Hammersmith Farm veranda. In the den was a telephone tied directly to the White House, permitting him to talk to any place in the world at any time. During his Newport rest, that telephone did not ring often...
...pages, contains 450,000 v. 600,000 entries. Gone are the gazetteer, the biographical dictionary, and 100,000 obsolete or nonlexical terms, such as the names of characters in Dickens. In are 100,000 brand-new terms, from astronaut, beatnik, boo-boo, countdown, den mother and drip-dry, to footsie, hard sell, mccarthyism, no-show, schlemiel, sit-in, wage dividend...
...without biting, the Public Health Service assigned Dr. Denny Constantine, 36, a lifelong student of bats, and a crew of hardy assistants to the ugly and dangerous job of checking further. Researcher Constantine is not easily daunted. During field work in Alaska six years ago, he crawled into a den of hibernating bears and took the rectal temperature of the biggest one while pacifying the restive animal with lumps of sugar. But for his new job he needed more equanimity than ever. Bat caves are chambers of horror. Their floors are deep in stinking guano and littered with the skulls...
...DEN BOEF Vlaardingen, The Netherlands...
...houses grow smaller and families larger, man's home is fast becoming his kiddies' castle. Already teen-agers have overrun the living room, kitchen and den, driving their parents into the last bastion of apartness-the fortress bedroom...