Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that set him thinking. Once he tried to stop some youngsters who were robbing his backyard peach tree, and got a sassy, truthful reply: "Our teacher says that everything in Richland belongs to the Government." A neighbor came home from work one evening to find his carefully nurtured flower bed torn up; that was where the Master Plan decreed that a Government tree should grow. After five months as head of Rich-land's frustrated, ineffectual city council, McDonald discovered that there was no government in Richland except the Atomic Energy Commission, and its contractor,, the General Electric...
Died. Maria Ouspenskaya, 73, wizened, rasp-voiced supporting actress of stage & screen (Love Affair, The Rains Came, King's Row); of second- and third-degree burns, after falling asleep while smoking in bed; in Hollywood. Russian-born, Stanislavski-trained, Mme. Ouspenskaya came to the U.S. in 1923 (as the dying woman in the Moscow Art Theater production of Gorki's The Lower Depths), divided her time between Broadway, her acting school and Hollywood, where she stole many a scene from more glamourous players, saved many a potboiler from the critics' claws with her playing of a querulous...
...Mobley," Hilton recalls, "wasn't exactly a hotel-it was sort of a flophouse. We considered it a bad day when we didn't have a three-time turnover on the beds. It was a bad night when I had a bed of my own." But the flophouse made $3,000 the first month and Hilton decided "to freckle Texas with Hilton hotels...
...from a small hotel in Lubbock, Texas to Manhattan's famed Waldorf-Astoria-have an estimated worth of $125 million and a replacement value of $175 million. He employs 11,250 people, and likes to boast that in his 12,500 rooms he "could sleep in a different bed every night for 40 years...
Pain, Counterpane. In Chicago, Bedding Manufacturer Joseph P. Fanning attributed the boom in bed sales to the possibility that "people are going to bed to escape domestic and international complications...