Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, it was clearly a time of testing, as much a part of his medically prescribed regimen as his four weeks of bed rest and his three months of gradual convalescence. He was on a six-hour daily work schedule, with two hours off for lunch and midday rest. Into his office throughout the week paraded a succession of important callers: Secretary of State Dulles (twice alone and once with others), Attorney General Brownell (to discuss the President's upcoming message on changes in immigration laws), Economic Advisers Arthur Burns and Gabriel Hauge, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss...
...content with such heresy, Astronomer Woolley went on to pooh-pooh flying saucers: "I was awakened about 3 a.m. by the R.A.F. and asked about an object 3,000 feet due west. I hopped out of bed and had a look. I should have said, 'Take off, boys, it's the Russians,' but I had to tell them it was the planet Mars...
...Based on The Bar Sinister, a famous dog story by Richard Harding Davis, it is in fact as nice to have around as any bright young pup, and though it officially belongs to children, their parents will undoubtedly be giving it a run when the young ones are in bed. The hero of this waggish tale is a pit bull, called Wildfire in the film as in the life, who looks like a mournfully overgrown white mouse, and will certainly win all hearts with his chewed ears, string tail and general stigmata of mutt...
...amid the massacres of 1889, Freedom or Death is a historical novel, but scarcely of the sort U.S. readers usually encounter. The first law of popular American historicals is that history is made in bed. Kazantzakis prefers to write the kind of history that is made among God, man and the devil...
...Baltimore Evening Star, suspects his editor of wanting to fire him, and hurries around the island digging up bucketfuls of newsworthy dirt. This upsets the governor, who suspects that he is not popular in Whitehall but does not suspect that his handsome aide-de-camp is going to bed with the colored ex-mistress of the island's leading subversive...