Word: encrusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cockpit of a big modern airliner is a nightmare of instruments, switches, knobs, push buttons and warning lights. They crowd for attention in front of the pilot and copilot. They encrust the walls, drip from the roof like stalactites and overflow into the cubbyhole where the flight engineer sits. On a Boeing Strato-liner, there are 598 gadgets to watch. The three-man crew must know what each one is, where it is, and how to use it instantly. In an emergency, a few seconds of fumbling may mean a crash...
Tears & Fears. Among the tales (most-apocryphal) which encrust his legendary name is one of a trip through the desert with several cars full of Legionnaires. One car turned over, killing two of the men. Soon afterward the party stopped for lunch at a Bedouin encampment. To show proper sorrow, Glubb sat for an hour before a steaming platter of rice and meat without tasting a mouthful, drying great tears on the edge of his khafiyah (shawl headdress). Then he solemnly kissed his hosts on both cheeks and drove away. Out of sight of the Bedouin camp, he opened...
...Perfectly Happy." All this, of course, is only half of Colby's life; the other half, the night half of each day, might encrust the next two columns with precious and semiprecious names. It is a life which leaves her extraordinarily little time for sleep-five hours a night; less on Sunday because of Mass-and far less time for quietness or thought. Plain people often wonder how such supercharged individuals keep their health. The answer is, they usually do not. Anita Colby was hospitalized three years ago for complete physical exhaustion; last year two doctors kept check...