Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosalynn stopped by to eye the text. "If I can understand it, everybody can," she explained later. "We changed a word here and there to be more easily understood." At 12:45 a.m., a weary President went off to work on the speech for another hour before going to bed. Schlesinger and his small staff retreated to their offices, where the staff worked all night putting the finishing touches on the address and the Administration's proposed legislation...
...hourly rate is often one-third or more below the standard. U.S. officials have found farm laborers in the West who were paid $15 a week. Unscrupulous employers threaten to turn over the illegals to the INS if they complain. Kickbacks to the boss are commonplace; migrant workers often bed down in open fields. "We live the life of a concentration camp," says an illegal Mexican in California. "It is cruel here, but one can at least...
...lingering too long in the auditorium after a school assembly. As the boy told it, two school officials held him down while Principal Willie J. Wright whacked him more than 20 times with a 2-ft.-long wooden paddle. The resulting blood clots on his buttocks kept him in bed for a week. The boy's mother filed suit against the principal and other school officials. The plaintiffs charged that many students had been paddled-for offenses as minor as forgetting gym shoes and whispering in class-in a "reign of terror" against unruly behavior...
Beep. Beep. A small black box in the pocket of an Omaha business executive emits an electronic hiccup; its owner leaves a conference table to phone his stockbroker. Beep. A volunteer fireman in Rockville Center, N.Y., jumps out of bed and into his uniform. Bweet. A Houston truck driver has a new delivery; and across town-bip-bip-an airline stewardess leaves her restaurant table to report for duty. Bweet. A vinyl-booted siren strutting her stuff on Times Square has a call-in customer...
...their love affair is a conventional one-first meeting and wary attraction, a fairly smooth sail into bed (art movies and paperbacks are the food of love), a mutual discovery of annoying foibles, which predicts the big breakup. It comes finally over her developing career and her cheerful acceptance of the lunatic notion that Los Angeles offers a viable setting for a civilized life...