Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight languages the signs on East Berlin buildings proclaimed: "Peace, Pax, Paix, Paz, Pace, Frieden, Béke, Mir." There were peace days, peace weeks, peace bicycle races, peace dances, peace cigarettes. Japanese could buy a sedative called the Sleep of Peace and enjoy it on a Peace mattress...
Hill decided to make his craft as light as possible, to clear the rocks and bob quickly to the surface after the 162-ft. drop. He fashioned a cylinder of 13 truck-tire inner tubes held together with netting, fitted it with an air mattress, christened it The Thing. This week a crowd of more than 100,000 Sunday sightseers gathered for two miles along the banks of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls to watch the show; Hill's mother was among them...
...wouldn't cry so, if you didn't hurt me.'" Even so, one man had to hold her legs and another her head. Dr. Shultz cleaned the bone fragments and put them back, sewed up the wound and gave Sara 250 cc of plasma. A mattress was slipped between Sara and the table, and she slept soundly...
...originates in Cincinnati and is billed as "an hour of songs, fun and laughter." The songs are full of hillbilly yips and cowboy yodels; the fun is provided by a backwoods M.C. with a burlesque approach; the laughter comes from mock titles like If I Can Get Through the Mattress I'll Meet You in the Spring. On the credit side: some spirited square dancing...
...Water Jag. The shortest interrogation ran three hours, several lasted a grueling 15. Officially, prisoners slept between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., but Stypulkowski was hauled out of bed 69 nights out of 70. Sleep at any time was a virtual miracle. A lumpy mattress and a single blanket left him aching and cold. By prison rules, hands had to be kept outside the blanket, and a naked light bulb was always trained on his head. Any attempt to tuck in frozen fingers or face away from the light brought a barked reprimand from the guard at the peephole...