Word: washstand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Logic Baird, 58, a canny Scot who turned an uncanny trick in 1924 when he switched on a homemade gadget (set up on a washstand in a garret over a flower shop), a moment later saw the first picture ever televised flicker on a screen two yards away; after influenza; in Bexhill, Sussex...
...Hodges Way. This week, back in its slugging stride, the First looked to Hodges for something new in his bag of tactics. In his trailer (built-in bunk, washstand, two chairs, a desk) he went about the business of battle much as he had gone about the business of training...
...pint-sized bellhop, but usually the traveler totes his own bags. Frequently he is ushered into a room that seems to have been bombed: the bed unmade, the bureau loaded with dreg-laden tumblers, the ash trays choked with butts. One wet, crumpled towel is left on the washstand, the legacy of yesterday's guest, who seems to have shined his shoes with...
...vulcanized, the bacon soggy, the toast black, the coffee thin and acid-and the waitress doesn't care. And at night the intrepid traveler is not surprised to return and find the room still unmade, the bureau still undusted and the damp towel still on the untidied washstand. If the night is chill he may as well go sit in the lobby: no one knows where the blankets are. If he tries to phone for help he will get nothing but a dull, buzzing noise...
After twelve days the Bishop was taken to modern Gumyoji prison in suburban Yokohama. There he found other Britons and Americans, somewhat better food, and a cell which had a bed, toilet and washstand with running, drinkable water...