Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only wives I am in trouble with." But there is little evidence that Steinbeck especially appreciated the company and conversation of women. In one bitter moment, he told a friend who was considering marriage, "I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent." After his second divorce, he despaired of ever achieving a good marriage and went on a sexual rampage during which, he claimed, he slept with fifty women. During this period he wrote, "My love of women...
...Sagan's style isn't always consistent or striking, it seems, at least, pretty much her own. When she wedges the hard brutality of Nazi extermination camps between two lovers in their bed, you are tempted to compare her poetry with the self-punishing irony of Sylvia Plath, but you don't get very far before Sagan pulls up short, insisting, "and those things I will not look...
Relief also came from more than 20 nations-including Nicaragua, where only three years ago another earthquake devastated Managua, the capital, killing 10,000. The U.S. organized an airlift, carrying everything from water tanks and tents to a fully staffed 100-bed field hospital. Private agencies and church groups also volunteered...
...month after Gaither received a full $5,250 scholarship to Harvard and was named valedictorian of his 26-member high school class, his mother also suffered a stroke and was bed-ridden...
...nothing else, Pasqualini's captors insist on form. The inmates are kept near starvation and Pasqualini is horrified by the sight of his body in a mirror: His skin sags slack and bruised from contact with the communal plank bed. Nonetheless, when someone filches food, it cannot be from hunger, and he is "struggled." After three days of hooting, Pasqualini begs relief from the warder for everyone involved: "He admits he stole the bread. He was hungry. Isn't that enough? Do we have to make him say he is a dirty bourgeois because he was hungry?" The warder responds...