Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roosevelt took her through a "cottage" retreat at Hyde Park: "The Secret Service were standing on the terrace with their backs to the French windows, oblivious as usual. He wheeled himself into the bedroom, and there was this double bed ... I stayed with him because ... you don't say no to the President of the United States ... Besides, I had nothing better...
Lying in the dark he could find no peace until he got out of bed and by the light of a small flashlight, walked the halls of the White House to the place where Woodrow Wilson's portrait hung. He found something soothing in the act of touching Wilson's picture; he could sleep again...
...superior TV performer. He has the endorsement of the largest G.O.P. volunteer organization, the fealty of most of the Federated Republican Women, who supply precinct shoe leather. Beginning this Wednesday, he can devote complete attention to California, stumping by day and still sleeping in his Pacific Palisades bed at night. Ford's own lieutenants admit that his support is lukewarm and concentrated among moderates with erratic voting habits. Reagan's hard conservative core will vote, come sun or smog...
...violence on the island has known no beginning or end. Forced to adapt to a life of continual war in order to survive, Cubans have become indifferent to the potential terrors of their situation. "... his host brought him an aspirin, and finally the young terrorist lay down on his bed in the room where he had been hiding almost six months now. They put the dynamite inside a closet in the room in which his parents and his oldest daughter slept. About an hour later another terrorist appeared to take back the borrowed dynamite. He was very nervous...
Even though it was after midnight, Rosenthal would be up in a matter of hours. He describes himself as an insomniac, who wakes up around four or five in the morning, regardless of how late he goes to bed. The first thing he does each day is dictate into his "anxiety box," a dictaphone that he hands over to his secretary to transcribe when he reaches his office around 10:15 a.m. There he will stay until around 7:30 p.m. His evenings are often spent out with his wife and friends, he says...