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Word: bedded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Loser." To the two-story stucco house in a neglected La Habra orange grove came the news bulletin of Stassen's surrender. There Frank Nixon labored for life under a green oxygen mask. At the foot of his bed was a television set; on top of it rested the family Bible. Dick Nixon told his father about Stassen's surrender. The old man smiled, said painfully: "He's a good loser." Asked the son: "You heard that President Eisenhower opened his press conference by saying everyone is praying for you?" Replied his father: "Thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE-PRESIDENCY: Unanimous Choice | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...splendid tapestries, bronzes and English furniture. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum farther up the Avenue, which should some day inherit the Untermyer collection. About the only thing in his apartment not destined for museum display is the TV set squatting patiently at the foot of his bed. Among his Meissen prizes are the three pieces shown opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MAKE BELIEVE FROM MEISSEN | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...along a valley road. Later, all will listen to a health lecture, study history and contemporary events. Before dinner, the executive will be permitted to have the day's only liquor−but no more than two drinks. In the evenings, there will be lectures or chambermusic, and bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: For the Whole Man | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

When you're alone in the middle of the night and you wake in a sweat and a hell of a fright When you're alone in the middle of the bed and you wake like someone hit you on the head You've had a cream of a nightmare dream and you've got the hoo-ha's coming to you . . . And perhaps you're alive And perhaps you're dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hour of the Hoo-Ha's | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...analysis reveals a life as barren, lonely and pockmarked as the face of the moon. Fernand has lost all hope of heaven, but retains a superstitious fear of hell. His sole deity is the "phenobarbitone-God." Only two passions dominate him: laziness and cigarette smoking. He lies on his bed by the hour looking at the wall. Indeed, the only decision Novelist Dutourd puts to his hero in the whole course of this Novel is whether or not to get up and go to the bathroom. Fernand doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hour of the Hoo-Ha's | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

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