Word: nightdresses
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...ranch house, Mrs. John Carroll thought it was just an unusually bright Hawaiian moon, pulled the shades and went back to bed. Soon she awoke again, to the sound of a dull, menacing rumble. She fled in her nightdress, just before the stream of red-orange lava hit her house...
...Palace the wedding presents were being laid out and catalogued. Among them were a set of Peking carpets from British expatriates in China, a dressing case fitted in tortoise shell from the city of Paris, twelve wedding cakes from Imperial outposts, some rubies from Burma and a silk nightdress from one Mrs. Clementine Hager...
Before he acted, Khoury's mind began to wander. When one close friend visited the President's house to inquire after his health, Khoury meandered into the room in his nightdress, asked "And who is this?" Once, when he was being taken to his car for a visit to the doctor, he refused to enter, saying that he must take his eggplants with...
Rifle butts hammered a midnight tattoo on hundreds of doors. Into the cold, dark streets poured nearly a thousand Jews, many of them in thin nightdress. For more than an hour they shivered in the crisp air while soldiers ransacked their homes, threatened with clubbed rifles any who protested. Ten foreign correspondents were whisked from the scene to the headquarters of a ruddy-faced, blond-mustached lieutenant colonel, who told them their presence was "embarrassing" to his men. The colonel called the Jews "'a despicable race," said (according to one report): "You know our boys sometimes use the butts...
...Smith with a 50% solution of silver nitrate instead of the routine 1%. Three doctors who examined the child's scarred eyes said that there was no hope for his sight. But the hospital's Superior pinned a relic of Mother Cabrini to the baby's nightdress and called the sisters to the chapel to pray all night. Next morning the doctors admitted that a miracle had occurred-the scars were miraculously gone...