Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irvington, N.J. for an oil portrait the young housewife had painted of him, but disagreed with her assessment that Ike "is a calm and placid person." The President insisted that he was a "rebellious type," with vigorous reactions, and said that he had recently been going through "an inner conflict" between his military training and the demands of political life...
...ballerina to give it back. She refuses. A little later she had a heart attack, and the apothecary's wife, filling out a prescription of strychnine for the patient, has the perfect opportunity to do her in. While light and darkness moil and wrangle, the wife makes her inner decision...
Typically, he studied it as if skiing were a problem of high finance, developed a theory that it is a "study in will power." "He thought that one could reach a sort of inner harmony while skiing," says a friend. That harmony is still far off; he has broken a leg, been hospitalized with contusions. "I've never seen such a terrible skier," says a friend...
After the war, Grüber was appointed pastor of the Marienkirche, the oldest undestroyed church in Berlin's inner city. Several of the men he had known in concentration camps became top officials in the Communist government, and they trusted the earnest, red-faced man whose religious principles had led him to the same ugly places as their political convictions had led them. In 1949 Pastor Grüber was appointed plenipotentiary from the Evangelical Church to the Communist government at Pankow...
Then starts the merriest operation in the offshore oil business. An engineer, sitting at a control cabinet with little handles on it, opens valves releasing streams of compressed air. One stream runs through tubing to each of the caissons and inflates a heavy-walled rubber "inner tube," locking the caisson tightly to a steel ring. Then other inner tubes inflate, expand, and drive the caisson into the mud. Eventually the caissons reach firm footing deep in the mud. Then, inch by inch, the barge climbs up its own caissons like a boy shinning up a tree...