Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years as a "chummy," Lawrence had many surprising adventures as he scraped his way up one flue and down another, usually in the buff. As an old man he was especially fond of telling newspaper reporters how he frightened one maiden lady by emerging from the fireplace near her bed with no protective covering to cover his nakedness. She screamed and he scrambled back up the flue...
...voice, he had heard nothing yet. Last week, amplifying earlier charges that Yugoslavia was mistreating Russian nationals residing in Yugoslavia, Moscow loosed a 3,000-word blast against Tito that was enough to make the marshal's formidable wolfhounds dive whimpering under the nearest bed...
...Distractions. Aside from their kicks and strokes, the secret of Japanese swimming success appeared to lie in their ascetic, priestlike dedication to the sport. Year in & year out, there are no drinks, no smokes, "no girls." They go to bed at 9 p.m. Three times a day they take gymnastic exercises...
...produce between five and ten times as much as today, and its farms almost three times as much. Moulton points out that, even with present knowledge, vast new areas can be brought under cultivation, swamps and deserts reclaimed; he believes that certain crops could be raised in the fertile bed of the ocean. Fertilizers could increase farm output as much as the "discovery of a sixth continent...
...convert's home in the mountain village of Melcamaya, Baptist Missionary Norman Dabbs was holding a Bible class. When 300 drunken Indians began to stone the house, Dabbs and 40 terrified converts tried to escape in a truck. The Indians cut across a dry river bed, intercepted the truck, laid about with sticks and stones. When they had finished, Norman Dabbs and seven Bolivian Baptists lay dead...