Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consistent and throbbing: "Five acres per peasant . . . We will give you land!" From Gandhi to Dandies. Less than three weeks before the Andhra election, the 25 top leaders of Nehru's Congress Party gathered in nearby Madras, prop ping themselves up against cushions on a great white mattress. The Congressmen's names were big names of the Gandhi days: Govind Ballabh Pant, Abul Kalam Azad, Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar; the setting was Gandhian, in a tenement, and many of the leaders traveled to Madras Gandhi-style, in jampacked third-class carriages. But they were painfully aware that India...
...exits from the capital checked again, and decided that Booth had probably got away into southern Maryland. Then, as troopers rode out along the Potomac (it took twelve days to corner and kill Booth), Stanton and Mrs. Lincoln entered the little bedroom where Lincoln lay on a cornhusk mattress. Outside, a throng of weeping people, mainly Negroes, waited in the damp street. Cavalry horses were tied four and five to a picket post along the block. Newsboys ran past, shouting: "Assassination!" At the Baltimore & Ohio terminal, all train traffic stopped as detectives searched passengers, trainmen, mail bags...
...tent on the grounds of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown. Nobody knows who painted them. The artists worked on the scale of the present-day "New York School" abstractionists, for the pictures measure 7 ft. by 10 ft. and up. All 13 pictures (painted on mattress ticking) were commissioned over a century ago by one George Mastin. a Genoa. N.Y. tailor, farmer, phrenologist violin player and horse trader, who exhibited them, together with his own wares and talents, in barns all over his county...
...sharp contrast to this crowding, the Argentine embassy offered relative luxury. Its huge downstairs rooms provided ample mattress room for 175. All had the run of two acres of lawns and gardens...
...They waited a week, but nothing happened. Once they saw Ginny Wood flying her light plane over the crags, searching, but she did not see them. Avalanches hurtled down the open slopes on both sides of their exposed ledge. On the sixth day they wrapped Argus in the air mattress and tents, tugged and slid him down another 1,000 ft. to the floor of Muldrow Glacier and set up camp there, away from the avalanches. Supplies were running...