Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seaman named Don Haynes arrived in San Francisco in a strange contrivance-an automobile with the doors welded shut and the windows securely barred. He announced that, living on food passed through the bars, he had been inside for several weeks, was going to stay there (with a bed, a chemical toilet and a collapsible bathtub) for 14 months, thus win the long...
...Stella Kasprowicz, operator of a Newark, N.J. delicatessen, announced that her grey cat, Tiger, and her dog, Spotty, were sharing their bed near her stove with a large white...
...room furnished only by their waiting coffins. In his 16 years of heroic service on Molokai, which ended with his death from leprosy in 1889, Father Damien made many improvements, including a water system built largely with his own hands. Now the colony, located at Kalaupapa, has a 60-bed hospital, four doctors, a movie theater, beauty shop, Lions Club, American Legion post, Boy Scout troop. The patients, whose only diversion when Father Damien arrived was getting drunk on the juice of the ki tree, have dances and picnics; they learn rug-weaving, block-printing, sewing, raise food under...
...took a long drag on his beer and glowered at the two idiots capering in the middle of the floor. They had been capering for nearly two hours now, and Vag wished they would go to bed. But the idiots went right on with their rhapsodic swaying...
Next, tabloid readers paused over the pictures of three sad-eyed youngsters gazing at their bandage-wrapped sister in a hospital bed. Fourteen-year-old Roberta Lee Mason had saved her five brothers and sisters from death when fire destroyed their home in a Chicago suburb. The "fire heroine," said the Mirror, was "wrapped in her white badge of courage...