Word: hayloft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a group of eager young inventors-the kind that seemed to flock about him all his life-he set to work in a barn hayloft, trying, testing, failing, then trying, testing and failing again. It was part of his system: "You cannot start to do a new thing and hit it right the first time." But within eight months, by disregarding all the rules of the day about electric motors and storage batteries, he had developed the self-starter. Cadillac bought it, and within a year car sales were doubled...
...Lions! Snakes!" Family life in the roomy, two-story house with the pillared porch flourished on a steady diet of Bible reading and chores, but when these were done, the lusty young Eisenhowers were discharged to tumble in the cavernous hayloft out back, above Uncle Abraham Eisenhower's veterinarian establishment. Milton, frail and spindly from scarlet fever in his fourth year, was a frequent outcast kibitzer, to be seized unawares by mischievous hands and flung bodily into the black haymow amid terrifying cries of "Lions! Tigers! Snakes...
...Mrs.Hopewell, who "had no bad qualities of her own but . . . was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack." When she invites a young, Bible-peddling wool-hat to supper, he winds up taking her crippled daughter to a hayloft, fortifies himself with whisky (which he carries in a hollowed-out Bible), and steals the girl's wooden...
...child, which would have seriously handicapped her chances of "a happy and normal marriage," 2) she could have given the child to the public authorities, which would have caused her "terrible guilt feelings," or 3) and most likely, there would have been a secret and .septic delivery in a hayloft, presided over by her mother and grandmother. Then what would have become of the baby? The question did not arise because Dr. Flournoy and a colleague authorized a legal abortion, which was performed in a clinic of high repute, under optimum medical conditions, for about...
...enlisted early in the war between the sexes. In proving herself the equal of the neighborhood boys, she broke her left leg jumping out of a hayloft, her left wrist falling off a wall, her left collarbone tripping over a curb, her left arm twice-once falling off a horse, the other time when she was pushed off a chair. At summer camp, she was forever winning the cup as the best all-around athlete. When she was a freckled, scrawny 13, she put in a solid three months' practice on her diving to capture the championship of Laurel...