Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheetless bed," Koestler writes The Invisible Writing--"enveloped by gloom and stench, counting the familiar stains on the wall which crushed bed-bugs leave behind, I heard the sound of a gramophone in the next room." It was Hughes, playing Sophie Tucker on his phonograph, not bothering to notice the dirt. While Koestler was disgusted by the filth and unsanitary living habits, and only briefly amused by a local purge trial, Hughes was enjoying lavish Turk hospitality and occasionally reading the voluminous notes Koestler took each day. What Koestler found most everywhere failed to meet his expectations, and Hughes, having...
Resting at the resort of Krynica some time later, Gomulka was disturbed while in bed one morning by a U.B. man. Gomulka reached under his pillow for his pistol, but the U.B. man was there first. Said he: "I have orders from the Central Committee to bring you to Warsaw." Replied Gomulka calmly: "If somebody from the Central Committee wants to see me, let him come here." But he went quietly with the guard to Miedzieszyn, a Warsaw suburb, where he and his wife were held under arrest in separate cottages without seeing each other for four years. Most people...
According to Clapp, the system has not always worked perfectly. At first, he had to do push-ups to stay awake, and had trouble falling asleep when he went to bed. He also complains that in the early morning he has to wear a parka because there is no dormitory heat after midnight...
After dinner in the Houses they will hear addresses by Victor O. Jones '28, managing editor of the Boston Globe, William M. Pinkerton, director of the University News Office, and John U. Monro '34, director of Financial Aid. Then they will watch Saturday's CRIMSON go to bed, and spend the night in the Houses or at Radcliffe...
...fourth-through-eighth-graders in New Jersey's Caldwell Township school, half are now working for various L.C.A. merit buttons. Some members have become such avid readers that one mother complained: "I can't get my children to bed any more. They want to sit up and read...