Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preoccupied recently, thinking of all the things he'll do when he becomes editor of the Real Paper within the next week or two. He tries to sleep, but ideas keep popping into his head, and when that happens Linsky reaches for a pad of paper next to his bed and scribbles himself a note. The writing is often unintelligible the next morning, but that doesn't matter because Linsky has had more ideas by then--ideas for articles and the like that come to him in his sleep, in his dreams. "It's really sort of a funny phenomenon...
...ranks of the Viet Minh, the Communist-led liberation movement. In 1945, as the leader of a Viet Minh force that occupied the imperial capital of Hue, he was quartered in the former French Resident's master bedroom. After the first night, Tra complained that the bed was too soft; he wound up sleeping on the floor. In 1946 Tra became chief of staff of the Viet Minh in central Viet Nam. Not long after the war with the French ended, he was named deputy chief of staff to North Viet Nam's Defense Minister and legendary military...
...would-be sod-busters. In Milwaukee, county and city governments are leasing 2,500 plots to the public at $8 each per year. From coast to coast, gardening clinics are packing in S.R.O. audiences with Hoe-It-Yourself lectures ranging from Coping with Cutworm to Installing a French Intensive Bed (a system designed to reduce moisture loss and weed growth by mounding the soil...
Sergeant Dale Jackson returns to his Detroit ghetto home in a morphine induced stupor, drained by emotional stress and battle fatigue. After an initial feeling of release, he grows despondent, spending most of his days lying in bed staring at the ceiling. Tortured by a recurring nightmare in which he stands looking into an immense gun barrel, he is finally admitted to the Valley Forge Army Hospital. Essentially, Jackson can't understand why fate or circumstance or coincidence has allowed him to live when his war buddies became charred heaps during an ambush; why he was decorated with the Congressional...
...classes." The "special efforts which Dean Pipkin envisions as necessary if all sophomores were to live in the Yard are not now required. The Whitla-Pinck report, Perspectives on the Houses at Harvard and Radcliffe, states, "No student ought to live in a House merely for the sake of bed and board and to study and enjoy his university life elsewhere." This has been the chief virtue of the House system since its inception...