Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clad in a white sari, Indira Gandhi sat weeping on the floor beside her dead father's bed. He lay stretched out under a sheet, two crossed lotus blossoms resting above his head. Later, the body was moved to the doorway of the Prime Minister's white-walled house as a line of weeping, shouting mourners two miles long formed to offer final tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru...
...Sheets of Flame. Last week, the favorite won. The 33-car field was the fastest in 500 history. Driving a rear-engined Lotus-Ford, Scotland's Jimmy Clark roared through the first lap at 149.7 m.p.h., and other drivers strained to match his pace. One was too bold. On the second lap, drifting off Indy's No. 4 turn, Californian Dave MacDonald lost control of his Thompson-All-State Ford, spun crazily and smacked into the inside wall. In one horrible instant that none of the 300,000 spectators will ever forget, a sheet of flaming gas spread...
...irascible, intolerant and bitter. Nettie is sad-eyed, stiff-bodied, and given to sulky silences. She has ruled the family by veto power; he, in turn, has mutilated his wife's heart with incessant drinking and the pursuit of "hotel-lobby whores." Trying to cast up a balance sheet of guilt, Timmy blames first one parent, then the other...
...Crimson Key tour of the Houses and the Leverett House Committee literature for freshmen, he said, discouraged applications on the basis of the huge number in previous years. "In view of the perennial overapplications, your applications--but not your hopes--are encouraged," the House Committee's widely-circulated information sheet said...
What were the criteria of victory? All was explained on a yellowed sheet of parchment locked within the judges' envelope. Had contestants noted, for example, that "Chocolates," "Elsie," "Parietals," and "Joust" were grossly misspelled? Had they recognized that "Bacterium" is singular, whereas "Cocci" is plural...