Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressured second-rate manhood on American women." The mummery was yet another attack upon Mrs. Ford for her enthusiastic lobbying on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment, which would guarantee women equality with men under the law. But the self-possessed First Lady was hardly unnerved. "I went to bed laughing," she said. "Jerry...
...normal day last week, Gerald Ford got up at 5:50 a.m. and went to bed at 10:45 p.m. What went on in between was almost unspeakable. There were twelve separate scheduled events, mainly meetings and appearances. Ford greeted or talked to more than 100 people, made two formal speeches outside the White House. He placed a dozen telephone calls beyond the premises, received at least as many, conducted literally countless confabs on the inner-office lines. Three meals were eaten, ablutions performed, family members counseled, six newspapers perused, four TV newscasts sampled, scores of memorandums absorbed...
...reason is that he is diligent about his morning exercises. Right out of bed he spins off two miles on the exercise bicycle in his room. There follow 20 to 40 knee-lifts for each leg. The President sits on a low bench, straps weights of 20 or more pounds to each foot, then straightens his legs, building up those knee muscles injured in football. He does 25 or so push-ups and as many situps. Sweating and breathing heavily at the end of 20 minutes, he is ready for a shower...
...cell was windowless, barred and infested with cockroaches, fleas and mosquitoes," Robins later reported of his temporary residence. "A single yellowed bulb in the ceiling burned throughout the night as all the dogs in Christendom howled round us. On the cracked wall opposite the bed there had been scrawled in two-inch letters, MAN WILL DIE BUT THE CAUSE WILL LIVE...
...Wolkon, who has just opened a $3 million, two-rink complex in New York's Rockland County, says he plans to be in operation year round. "Eventually, we expect to be booked 24 hours a day." Already the scarcity of available ice time has driven parents out of bed in the small hours to get their children to the rink on time...