Word: pillowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quietly, two stewardesses and a purser went to work, pointed out the escape hatches, explained the ditching procedure (fasten safety belts securely, rest head on pillow on the knees, cross wrists behind legs, grasp each ankle from the front). Passengers discarded their shoes (the women took off stockings so they would not slip if they had to walk on a wing), got rid of sharp objects (e.g., fountain pens, tie clasps), shouldered their way into life jackets. One woman tore the crucifix from her rosary, kept the beads...
Huge and amiable, the former autocrat puffed up the gold-and-silver ladder to his jewel-encrusted throne, and just as the royal backside touched the gold-brocaded pillow waiting to receive it, thousands upon thousands of lights blazed up all over the city. Elephants with gilded toenails lumbered past the prince. Indian regimentals struggled bravely to keep their Scottish bagpipes skirling, while acrobats wheeled and tumbled. One by one Mysore's distinguished citizens approached the throne holding an offering of gold, and the maharaja, his diamond earrings ajangle, tapped the proffered coin to show that he accepted...
What pleases Tamayo most about his latest success is that he has won it with a new technique. Not long ago he made a disturbing discovery. Said he: "Salons in New York and Paris was featuring Tamayo Pink.' Why, my wife even got presents-aprons, pillow cases and napkins with watermelons on them. Naturally, I was displeased...
...came to bed and saw her fresh and tender as a flowering branch, he staggered back. "Who sent you here?" he gasped. His heart was pounding, but he told her: "Go away!" The maiden bowed her head and went, but in the antechamber she knelt lightly on a pillow, and taking up the emperor's lute, she played the melody that he had made in the plum garden. And as she played, his grief was healed. "You have consoled me by playing my music," the emperor said when she had done. "Stay with...
...lend balance, the President carefully took the five steps down from the hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery of photographers. Then he slipped gratefully into Mamie's black Chrysler Crown Imperial, and sagged back against a white pillow. In a moment his Secret Service driver wheeled the car out into Washington traffic, led the cavalcade of Secret Service men, photographers and reporters north through the Maryland countryside...