Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient or to let him die. The patient, dying of tuberculosis, is a brilliant young artist who is also a detestable human being. The doctor is the discoverer of a miraculously effective cure, which, however, only he knows how to apply. Since his clinic holds only one more available bed, he is forced to decide between healing the artist or another doctor, who is not particularly talented but a good and dedicated man. He ultimately picks the fine man rather than fine art--but that unhappy last act reveals that his real motive seems to be only a love...
Winthrop's members almost without exception enjoy their House. Whether because ninety per cent of its members chose Winthrop as their first preference, or because the hot-bed fervor so prominent in some other houses is never consciously promoted in Winthrop, dissatisfaction is virtually unknown...
...bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano (gypsy) the boy called him. The two were inseparable, but very little else was safe within a rope's length of that savage young fighter. He charged the chickens, butted the bucket, larked with the laundry; when the time for branding came, it took seven good men to catch...
...crashes down about 20 of them, scattering staves like matchsticks-and broke his neck. The doctors said he would never move his legs again, and the Navy retired him. But Wead had an invincible will to get well. For the better part of five years he lay helplessly in bed, driving the life "back into his limbs by sheer force of determination, until at last, with the help of two canes, he was able to walk...
Scrambled? In Sydney, Australia, Mrs. Gwendolyne Kelly got a divorce after she told the judge that she returned home early from a vacation, found her husband in bed with a woman who mistook her for the maid, ordered bacon and eggs...