Word: reede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...base was well prepared for the crisis. Mrs. Kennedy has a medical record of premature births, and both her children were delivered by caesarean section. If the baby had not been premature, it would have been born at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. But, just in case, the Air Force had long since readied a ten-room suite (nursery, kitchen, two lounges and six bedrooms) at Otis. By the time Jackie arrived, 200 special guards had been posted around the 22,000-acre base. Three airmen with Jackie's blood type (A1 Rh positive) had been picked several...
Attorney Hollowell's address to the jury was executed with consummate artistry. The evidence adduced by the State, he declared, "was a slender reed, gentlemen, in the tide of the testimony." As a tribute to the power of his argument, the court adjourned until the next morning, hoping that the span of a single night would erase Hollowell's words from the jury's minds...
...sources who explained that the air-conditioning system, the furniture, a dishwasher and garbage disposal were brand-new and that two U.S.A.F. nurses "with decorations for outstanding service in the delivery room" would soon report to Otis. Jackie really plans to have her baby at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, but the Air Force believes in being on 15-minute alert...
From the point of view of modern archaeologists, Chilca burial customs were ideal, since they helped to preserve the remains. When a man died, he was laid on reed mats in his house and covered with other mats. Then heavy stones were placed over his chest and abdomen, presumably to keep his ghost from rising to haunt the living. Women's ghosts were considered more dangerous; sometimes five stakes were driven through female bodies...
Their staple crop, presumably grown on the river flats after the annual freshet, was lima beans, but they also ate reed shoots, berries and an unidentified tuber. They caught fish with hooks made by tying tender young thorns into a hook shape and letting them harden that way. They had no cotton or wool, but they wove cloth and fish nets of coarse fibers...