Word: pillowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Getting her down the mountain next day was a business. A rider tried to carry her on a pillow but his arms went numb with the strain. So the rest of the way they carried her on the stretcher. They stopped twice to give her more plasma and sedatives...
...business had a $37-million-a-year gross and a rough reputation. During the 30s, such gangsters as John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd leased entire motels, used them as hideouts; many a motor-court operator reckoned the difference between profit & loss in the "two-hour-tourist" or "hot-pillow" trade. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover blasted the entire industry: "The tourist camp is today a new home of crime in America, a new home of disease, bribery, corruption, crookedness, rape, white slavery, thievery and murder...
...Good Night. In South Bend, Ind., a thief slugged the caretaker of a social club, lifted $1,850 from the safe, paused in his flight to put a pillow under the fallen night watchman's head and give him a double shot of whisky from the club's supply...
...broke through in a grassy plot outside the prison walls, hopped over a 7-ft. picket fence, and disappeared into the surrounding city of Baltimore. Nobody missed him until next morning, when a guard checked a motionless lump on Holmes' bunk. It was a wadded blanket and a pillow...
...death from an office window in Prague three years ago, as the Reds were taking over his country. Two of Masaryk's favorite sheepskin jackets, trimmed with fluffy white wool and decorated with black and red sprays of brilliantly embroidered flowers, plus a felt coat and a pillow cover, fetched ?32. Other clothing, including a pair of shoes, three net scarves with lace borders, a child's white skirt and bodice and a lace shawl, brought the total sale...