Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radford and Milton Eisenhower, the President's brother. On the way to the hospital, Press Secretary James Hagerty briefed Wilson and Radford on proper bedside manners. Yes, it was perfectly all right to shake hands with the President. They should try to sit at the foot of the bed so that Ike could see them without moving his body. Their meeting should last no longer than 25 minutes, even though the President, as usual, would be talking briskly and edging for more time...
...often pale and fragile as the illustrations in English children's books. Walton, after all, is neither Italian nor Russian, and no one need complain if he goes politely Anglo-Saxon in the clutches. His one baldly passionate scene is the orchestral storm that accompanies the lovers to bed behind their curtain; its three thundering climaxes are almost embarrassingly literal ("You have to pass the night somehow," quips Walton...
Mono is a curable disease. The cure is, however, most exasperating. All the doctor can do is prescribe bed rest averaging two weeks and an adequate diet. Occasionally he may use antibiotics to combat secondary complications which invade the weakened body, but these drugs do not attack the disease itself...
Here the insidious nature of the disease is made apparent. When a patient has been in bed a week, he feels much better; his symptoms are less apparent, he remembers the date he had for the Yale game, and he is bored stiff. However, he is still sick. If he stays bed another week he can probably return to his studies while curtailing himself to limited activity for a short period. If he leaves prematurely he will quite possibly return to Stillman for a lengthy stay...
...simpler tenets included "grass eating, having babies without doctors, standing on your head to make your hair grow." He favored one-legged squatting exercises, no alcohol, no steaks (lunch varied from grass tea and pea soup to nuts, beet juice and carrot strips). He pioneered in popularizing bed-boards, enriched flour, scanty swimsuits and sunbathing. He celebrated his 81st, 83rd and 84th birthdays by parachuting from aircraft, getting his brittle, still impressively muscular 5-ft. 6-in. body to earth without injury...