Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scrupulously observing the note on the door, nurses at the hospital did not discover until late the next morning that the man in Room No. 2 was missing. Instead of the frail, 105-lb. cancer patient, they found a wig and a pillow propped up in the rumpled bed. By that time, Herbert Kappler, 70, a notorious Nazi war criminal serving a life sentence in Italy, was long gone. He and his German wife Anneliese, 52, who had spirited him out in the suitcase, turned up in West Germany the same day and were believed to be safely ensconced...
...January all Blue Cross groups will be required to cast a prosecuting attorney's eye on hospital records to detect abuses and outright fraud. Records will also be screened to determine such things as whether the medical treatment given was necessary and whether the patient was kept in bed longer than required-a common device for upping hospital bills. The carrot-and-stick part of the program involves trying to persuade hospitals to draw up accurate budgets a year in advance and then to abide by them. Blue Cross will pay the agreed sum. If a hospital...
...Desert Rat, who speaks a jargon of 1940 Cairo; and the Anglican bishop, who has developed Doubts-"an evident Pauline-type neurosis which is almost endemic in the Church of England, and usually comes from reading Lady Chatterley's Lover in paperback." There is also the insufferable Bed-does, a cashiered prep school teacher obscurely on the lam, who mutters cracks about Alcibiades being a queer. A French couple reminds Durrell of "very cheap microscopes...
...spaceship in Star Trek, swooped in graceful arcs down through the clear desert air over Edwards Air Force Base in California. Then, as if both ship and crew had been doing it forever, it touched down perfectly and rolled to a stop on the 11-km.-long (7 miles) bed of Rogers Dry Lake...
...picture. She has cooked up a scheme-unnecessarily devious, since no one seriously opposes it-for Hamish to lie with Elsa, who will then hatch out the child that she, Gemma, wants but cannot give birth to. She herself, more to serve iniquity than to requite passion, will bed with Victor. "Love," she tells Elsa, is "gene calling to gene, as country cats call to each other across fields...