Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't sleep that night, the night before the climax of the whole thing. My husband always sleeps with a pistol beside his bed. It is his habit. That night I wanted to lock the bedroom door, and told him 'This way, if they come, you will be ready with your pistol.' A general who was our friend called to ask if my husband had ordered military trucks to move toward our house. The trucks were moving, and we thought they were against us. (We later learned they were sent to protect us.) I went upstairs...
...musical spoof of wife swapping. Michael Stewart's book and lyrics and Cy Coleman's music deftly plunge two would-be swinging couples into sex, but they only manage to get their toes wet. As a howlingly funny (k)night errant, Lenny Baker lies in a bed he has not made...
Jimmy Carter likes to tell the story about a drunk hauled into a Georgia court, accused of starting a hotel fire while smoking in bed. He admits being drunk but denies igniting the blaze. "Your honor," he tells the judge, "the bed was already on fire when...
...white and a ghetto black-initially mistrust her Eastern accent and sense of style. But Harry Argent, a blunt, flamboyant movie producer, is intermittently attracted to Eliza for what she is: "A sort of zaftig Jane Fonda," who needs not only a vocation but also a man in her bed...
...Mike Wallace, who is skilled at off-balance questions that evoke unexpected answers, was asking a CIA witness: "You're pretty arrogant, aren't you?" Barbara Walters once felt entitled to ask the President-elect on-camera if he and Rosalynn would share a White House double bed (Carter, being a populist, didn't say it was none of her business, or the public...