Word: lair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...docile and "eunuchoid," it is their own fault. If a wife makes any sort of request that involves money when the husband retires to his lair to rest from the day's hunting, it is because it is the only time she sees him long enough to get any discussion on the matter. Responsibility in marriage goes further than merely providing a paycheck and material comforts. It is in that notion that the true "cultural poverty" of the husband lies. Men had better stop treating their wives like the housemaids their mothers once had and treat them like...
...That precious moment when the male stumbles back to his lair, numb and exhausted, is what they have been waiting for all day. By striking hard while his resistance is low, they know they can pressure him into almost anything. This, then, is the Conversation Hour: the time to touch lightly on the need for a new vacuum cleaner, his gaucheries at last night's bridge party, the prospects for remedying his cultural poverty...
...hunters-or rather, huntresses-are wasps out for big game to feed their young. They shoot only pointblank, not to kill but to paralyze, since the victim is to be sealed into the huntress' lair with her egg, and the larva thrives only on fresh meat. Though only such consecrated bug watchers as France's late great Entomologist Jean Henri Fabre get in on these magnificent shoots, British Science Writer John Crompton, author of the excellent Life of the Spider (TIME, July 3, 1950), has put all the bug watchers' best stories in this urbane and well...
...this time Jimmy is beginning to think that Derek can't be trusted. After the Comanches massacre most of the badmen for him, Cagney tracks Derek and Borgnine to their lair, disposes of both (with some last-minute help from Derek, who has had still another change of heart), and returns to Viveca Lindfors and a happy ending...
...After sweating out the hospital and a stretch of shore duty in Hawaii, he learns that Bungo Pete has sunk the Walrus, skippered by his former executive officer. With a fury worthy of Melville's Captain Ahab, Richardson takes another submarine straight to Bungo Pete's lair. One stormy night he lures Pete out, torpedoes Pete's tincan and his sucker-bait freighter, and to make vengeance dead sure, rams and sinks all lifeboats. Even when the yarn runs right away with him, Author Beach keeps jamming in the authentic details, the tingling stress, the sweaty crush...