Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...south side of the Monongahela River, the elder McDonald finally went into the Jones & Laughlin rolling mill as a guide setter. One day in 1915 a piece of hot steel sliding through the rollers sheared off accidentally. A hot, jagged end whipped through his left leg, put him in bed for ten months. When he walked again it was with a bad limp. In healing, the injured leg was shortened...
...psychiatrists−who are called psychologists to avoid upsetting students who cannot face the reality of their condition−it dealt with 72 patients in May, still had 36 last week although vacations were beginning. Six miles from the city's center, at Sceaux, is a 15-bed university home for more serious but still "benign" cases. Last week it was full to capacity, with eight men and seven women suffering from "anguish neuroses," adaptation difficulties, depression, and exam paralysis. A second home, with 50 beds, is scheduled to open in January. But the need will still...
...road with Count Basie's band, Billie began to find out about life and "ofays."* Life: "Living on the road with a band, nobody had time to sleep alone, let alone with somebody . . . We'd pull into a town . . . take a long look at the bed, go play the gig [date], come back and look at the bed again, and then get on the bus." Ofays: "They told Basie I was too yellow to sing with all the black men in his band. Somebody might think I was white . . . So they got special dark grease paint and told...
...doctor, says Author Donovan, did not tell Ike of his diagnosis, but "the President knew he was very ill . . . To avert shock to Mrs. Eisenhower, who has long suffered from valvular heart disease herself, Snyder sent her back to bed without telling her the President's true condition. Also, he put aside the idea of a public announcement because he feared that it would cause great excitement which inevitably would permeate the Doud house and might possibly kill the President. Sitting alone in the dead of night with his slumbering patient, therefore, Howard Snyder was the only...
Long Count. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett naval air station, the emergency word was passed. Lieut. Commander Frederick J. Hancox, a Coast Guard ready rescue pilot, was jangled from his bed. With his four crewmen, he scrambled for his twin-engined Grumman Albatross, was airborne at 1:02 a.m. Grinding out over the sea, Hancox called into his lip mike: "Hello Yankee Victor Charlie Alpha Mike Sierra,* This is Coast Guard 2124 . . . Do you read? . . . Mike Sierra, this is 2124, request a long count from you on this frequency. Over." Back came the long "one-two-three-four . . ." from...