Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the bomb went off, my wife sat up in bed and said, in a surprised voice, "My word! Another bomb !" Our two older children, aged 4 and 2½, were rather excited, but not unduly disturbed. We thank God that he did not allow the larger bomb to explode; the police said it would have leveled the house. We can take the bombs and the nasty phone calls and letters; we can take the insults and the stares. But please, we don't want people to think we've started to get panicky and to run away...
...some time now President Pusey has been speaking of the crowding in the Houses as if it were an unmitigated evil. He has voiced a desire to return to pre-war housing standards, by eliminating the double bed and giving every undergraduate a private bedroom. In order to impliment this program he has announced that the College will spend ten million dollars to build two new houses...
...none of them spoke . . . Then the door opened violently of its own accord without anybody seeing anything except a dim light of changing color that seemed to control the sound . . . Then a voice was clearly heard. 'Bosco, Bosco, Bosco, I am saved.' . . . The seminarists leapt out of bed and fled without knowing where to go . . . All had heard the noise and some of them the voice without gathering the meaning of the words...
...house in Coonian, Ireland with rappings, rushings, snatchings, snorings and putting out of lights. Three priests were sent by the bishop to cope with it by exorcism and prayer. One reported that he felt it like an eel twisting around his wrist; another saw the bedclothes of an empty bed heaving where the chest of an occupant would be. "Soon we could hear the heavy breathing, the gurgling in the throat . . . what country people would call 'a hard death.' " The Thing won out in the end. The haunted family eventually went off to the U.S., and "the gallant...
...nesting fever rises, Judy develops some even more outrageous symptoms. One minute she kicks her husband (Richard Conte) out of bed; the next she asks him with a pathetic whine why he always wants to sleep alone. "Look at me," she wails. "I'm a big fat cow." But she is furious when her husband does not contradict her. She is even madder when he chats at the fence with the girl next door. "You're carrying on with that-bffrllggrhaphut!" The next minute, overwhelmed by bacteriophobia, she starts scrubbing the kitchen floor for the fourth time that...