Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When an old Passamaquoddy Indian woman in Maine 20 years ago asked her tribal governor to look at some ancient, fragile documents she had in a cardboard box under her bed, she had no idea that they might be important. Yet one of the items in her cache was the 1794 treaty that her ancestors had struck with Massachusetts; in it, they ceded virtually all their land to the state. The find set off what has since become one of the largest Indian land claims in modern U.S. history. The 3,500 Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians in what...
...first act belongs entirely to the president's wife, played by Lizellen LaFollette. In fact, she speaks almost every line in the act, addressing either a mute servant or the bed once occupied by her puppy while trying to ignore the offstage laughter of the president and his masseur, who, we are told, spend their time telling each other jokes. LaFollette makes a Noble stab at rescuing the show, but her obvious talent is wasted. No one can deliver lines like "proceeds from the benefit will go to the Mongolian idiots" and look good. The President's wife does...
...sins and sings about it then sins again and always they seem to be in a Stones-type world, one described in Dog Days their 1975 album: where the singer goes "to sleep with an angel" and wakes up with a devil in his bed. Drinking in a "loud hot 'lanta honky tonk" is their style and if you don't like...
Says Richard N. Gardner, Ambassador-designate to Italy and a close Carter adviser: "We've been in bed with some of the worst regimes in the world." Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal and Greece under the junta are infamous examples. Others...
...reader wants to know still more, he turns to the phlebitis entry in the diseases section of the book. There he learns that the disorder may be due to a clot in the outer veins of the thigh or leg; that his feet should be raised in bed; that whisky may ease the pain; and that doctors -whom he should consult posthaste-usually advise anticoagulants or surgery. In all, the book lists more than 650 symptoms and discusses nearly 500 diseases-from acne and cold sores to Zenker's diverticulum, an unnatural pouch that sometimes develops in the esophagus...