Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided that Estes should drive. He was game, but the roads were icy. Two hours later, just as he should have been handclasping his way into the St. Mary's auditorium, Kefauver was barely halfway there. At last he gave up, ordered his car turned around, got to bed about midnight...
Late in the morning the stocky man stirs in the old-fashioned featherbed, and demands his café au lait. He dumps in three lumps of sugar, shrugs into an old bathrobe, then sprawls on the bed again as he scans the morning papers. Soon he is dictating orders, directives and notes to his black-haired wife, her typewriter propped on a suitcase beside the bed. Before he is dressed, cars come honking down a narrow street usually disturbed only by the clump of a cart or a delivery boy's whistle, and men in leather coats and caps...
There were other discrepancies. Bridey described her metal bed in 1804, but Irish authorities said that metal beds did not arrive in Ireland until 1850. Bridey's father's first name was Duncan, a Scottish name that the Irish found utterly incongruous with Murphy. Bridey had spoken of living in Cork in a wooden house, but the houses in that boggy part of the country were almost invariably made of stone. She had spoken of Cork as a "town" and "village," but it was a big city in the 1800s...
...family of Los Angeles, have become Cyprus' largest industry, supporting some 2,000 of its inhabitants and providing more than 25% of the island's entire annual revenue. Cyprus Mines Corp. exports nearly 1,000,000 tons of copper a year, runs an up-to-date, 65-bed hospital for its employees, has built scores of low-cost houses for them to live in, helps to run schools, sports clubs, welfare centers and summer camps for their families, and pays its employees 15% to 20% above the island average...
...fiercely then to royal power. The bloody buddy-buddy with Buckingham (Richardson) decapitates the opposition, and Richard III is crowned-"but shall we wear these glories for a day?" He sends two little princes, his nephews, to a strangling bed, and sheds Buckingham as coldly as last season's skin ("None are for me/That look into me with considerate eye"). The rebellions begin, and Richard is slain at last on Bosworth Field...