Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women's dormitories are closed for the night at 1 a.m., but through an involved process of ringing bells for the police and signing the "Late Sign-In sheet, the young lady may occasionally return later...
...copper rolls were originally one sheet, rolled up in a hurry or by unskilled hands which broke it at a joint into two rolls. The directions read more like the works of Captain Kidd than the Dead Sea Scrolls' Teacher of Righteousness: "In the cistern which is below the rampart, on the east side, in a place hollowed out of rock; 600 bars of silver . . . Close by, below the southern corner of the portico at Zadok's tomb, and underneath the pilaster in the exedras, a vessel of incense in pine wood and a vessel of incense...
...June 30 strike deadline. The negotiators are moving to Manhattan, away from Pittsburgh and intense local pressures. In place of massive negotiating committees, each side has slimmed itself to a four-man team, with Stephens heading the industry group (U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, Republic, Jones & Laughlin, Inland, and Youngstown Sheet & Tube) and McDonald heading the union bargainers...
...miners aboard the Dockers' 878-ton yacht Shemara. Although both are millionaires, the Dockers also made generous use of the expense account and position of Sir Bernard, chairman of the Birmingham Small Arms Co., which produces everything from air rifles to $40,000 Daimler limousines. On the swindle sheet were at least two gold-plated Daimlers-one of them upholstered in six zebra skins and costing $42,000. Owned by Daimler, they were built to Lady Docker's specifications and for her use. Said Lady Docker: "We bring glamour and happiness into drab lives. The working class loves...
Funniest episode: the two Pal Joeys get hold of a magazine called The Booster from a trusting U.S. businessman. Under Perles and Miller, the sheet's literary editors included William Saroyan, and it boasted a Department of Metaphysics and Metempsychosis. The new Booster's second and last issue contained a story of a man who completely vanished inside a beautiful girl in an igloo...