Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kelley's voice hardened. "Isn't it the truth that you and Gubichev never were in love? . . . Is it not the truth that just one week prior to Jan. 14 you spent the night in the Southern Hotel in Baltimore while registered with a man under the name of Mr. & Mrs. H. P. Shapiro...
...roof-garden ballroom of Batavia's elegantly seedy Hotel des Indes, 40 white-suited delegates and aides representing the Dutch, the Indonesians and the U.N. Commission for Indonesia met one evening last week to put the finishing touches on a Dutch-Indonesian agreement. After a quiet 45 minutes in the steamy 90° heat of the ballroom, the business was over. Jogjakarta, the Java capital which the Dutch had taken forcibly from the embryonic Indonesian Republic 6½ months ago (TIME, Dec. 27), would be peacefully returned...
...days after the Hotel des Indes meeting, Dutch infantrymen began their withdrawal from Jogjakarta. As the Dutch troops passed through the city, natives gawked silently. Earlier, 30,000 civilians, including many panicky Chinese, had evacuated to the north, fearful that the Republican take-over would be the signal for bloody fighting among the Republicans. Indonesia's Communists already had announced their plans to take the Jogjakarta airfield as soon as the Dutch withdrew...
...subtropical mountain rain forest, or "high jungle," of Venezuela, Beebe's zoologist-assistant Jocelyn Crane ran across a fantastic concrete hotel building that had been left to molder unfinished after the death, in 1935, of its builder, Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. If Rancho Grande was in the jungle, the jungle was also in Rancho Grande-nesting in its crevices, pattering and pullulating in its chambers, making every wall "a landscape of mold and slime." With the consent of the Venezuelan government and the support of the New York Zoological Society and the Creole Petroleum Corp., the Beebe...
...Surprise . . . One day last week she knocked down a .22 calibre rifle she had bought in a pawnshop, put it in a suitcase, took all the money she had in the world ($85) out of the bank, and booked a room for three days at the expensive Edgewater Beach Hotel, where the Phillies and Eddie were staying. She told a girl friend mysteriously that by the following night the girl would have all kinds of exciting things to talk about. The next afternoon she and another girl friend saw most of a game in which the Phils beat the Cubs...