Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abound. The general tone is one of utmost timidity, going far beyond sensible caution." Crichton finds it all very puzzling. "An eminent surgeon strides purposefully into the operating room each day," he says, "but to read his papers, you wonder how he finds the courage to get out of bed in the morning." Crichton has a theory about the use of obfuscating medical language. In explaining it, however, he unwittingly demonstrates that jargon is highly contagious: "Medical obscurity may now serve an infra-group recognition function, rather like a secret fraternal handshake. In any event it is a game...
...have given the military adventurists what they wanted and they have gone everywhere and done everything, getting us involved in everybody else's business from Asia to Latin America and now, so it seems, Africa." Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois complained that the U.S. was "getting in bed with South Africa...
...official duties-was shown one summer afternoon when the two were interrupted by a knock on the Lincoln Bedroom door. Angered, Kennedy threw the door wide open. There stood two top foreign affairs advisers with a batch of secret cables-and a clear view of the woman in bed. Never bothering to close the door, Kennedy cooled down, read the dispatches, and made his decisions before he returned to his friend...
...LIFE IN ENGLAND. [Olivier's wife, Actress Joan Plowright, is associated with a group called Lyric Theater. In a smash hit, The Bed Before Yesterday, she plays a middle-aged lady who discovers sex and loves it. My Joanie has just had such a marvelous success-I am so happy for her. Apart from acting, I love gardening, designing a garden, planting it, working in the earth. I find it sanity-provoking. I think I would have liked to have been a farmer. Earth and greasepaint are a very good...
...sick in a modern hospital. Emerging from anaesthesia, she hears herself being discussed by attendants: "Would you recognize her? I mean, the way you know her from TV?" There is the blinding need for painkillers. "I'm not allowed to give you anything" is the standard reply. "My bed is standing in the middle of the room," writes Knef. "It didn't quite make it to the wall. My room in hell has been lifted out of time, hordes of starving rats are gnawing at my belly...