Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help relieve the nation's classroom and teacher shortage. In any case, WTTW is giving scores of men and women, including 52 who are handicapped, their only chance to go to college. Among the handicapped: a totally paralyzed 22-year-old who must depend on a rocking bed to breathe; a deaf girl who finds that she can easily read her professors' lips on TV; a blind woman of 55 who tape-records each lecture, plays it back to herself until she has mastered it. Says she: "I don't care if I flunk. These courses...
...primly deleted, viz., Billie, trying on her glasses, to Harry: "What's so funny? That I'm blind practically?" Network censors thought the most offensive line was Billie's explanation of Harry's objection to her work as a chorine: "He likes to get to bed early." The TV version: "He likes me to get to bed early...
...poolroom or on the beach, talking about girls they seldom get or wishing they were somewhere far away. Sometimes, there is nothing to do but mambo along the sidewalk, or just grow sideburns. At night they get drunk on money cadged from their working sisters, and tiptoe delicately to bed in the wee hours. They are terrified of their fathers, but bathetically sentimental about their doting mothers...
Matt Botsford lay on a bed in Stillman Infirmary and Tony Gianelly limped on the sidelines as the football team scrimmaged under the lights last evening...
...shake," to which the Very, Very Old Inquisitor grunts toward the Very Old Inquisitor, "The danger has passed." Just then the stage begins to rumble. As the play wears on, however, these scenes become repetitions and progressively less funny. Toward the end, Candide wearily remarks, "You cannot live by bed alone...