Word: galley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made a name for themselves* in the book-publishing business, still had some idle press time on their hands. To keep presses and employees profitably busy they started Harper's New Monthly Magazine, a sort of undigested Reader's Digest of fiction of the day, bought the galley proofs of the current works of Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and other English greats, and ran them as serials. Overnight, Harper's became a success. Literary Americans became such fans of the magazine, not only for its fiction but for its factual articles on U.S. life, that Thoreau peevishly asked...
...rieure de Guerre in Paris (then renowned as one of the world's great theory-of-warfare schools) and won it handily. Because work at the école was fantastically hard, marines who attended it called it "a period of great suffering." While Smith toiled like a galley slave, his daughters studied geometry in French. During vacations the family toured Europe, passing up nightclubs for Baedeker's monuments...
...visitor with a harpoon. As for mere sharks, they worried no one: it became sport to haul them aboard by the tail with the bare hand. The Kon-Tiki's food kept well, stored below the deck in asphalt-coated containers, and seafood was a glut in the galley. Flying fish, good eating, practically flung themselves at the frying...
...first passenger to think of the hostess was William Haigh. He left his seat and pulled her free of the debris in the galley. Sue Cramsie was still conscious, but one arm was broken and badly gashed. The other passengers tried to make her comfortable on a makeshift cot of coats and pillows...
...physics at the Los Alamos laboratory. Although the April issue containing the article had already gone to press, AEC summarily "requested" the presses stopped-the first time it had taken such a drastic step. It burned 3,000 copies already run off, melted down the type and impounded every galley proof and the manuscript of the original story...