Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced his way in at gunpoint, ordered Powell and his wife, Stella, into the living room. Diane, 3, was asleep. Robert, 7, came in to say goodnight. Powell stared silently at Carpenter, nodded at his pistol. Gunman Carpenter put it out of sight until the boy went to his bed. Stella helped make bedsheet bandages, obediently fed the guest bananas and milk as Carpenter sprawled on the couch, a shaky hand on his pistol. "We sat like that for hours," said Powell. "I kept thinking, if only he'd fall asleep I could jump him. I wanted to take...
...compete with churchgoing; no Sunday afternoon shows may be aimed at children, because they might entice them away from Sunday school. At 6 every evening will occur the "toddler's truce," an hour of TV silence, so that parents can wring out their moppets and put them to bed. The program companies have made an unwritten agreement to limit U.S. imports to 25% of the week's programming. But arrangements have already been made to acquaint Britons with I Love Lucy (scheduled to compete with BBC's prize variety hour, The Ted Ray Show), Dragnet, Hopalong Cassidy...
...born on Dec. 12, 1915. He weighed 13½ lbs. at birth, and in the delivery his head was badly ripped by the forceps, and one of his ear lobes was torn away; he carries the scars to this day. The doctor laid the unbreathing baby on the bed. thinking him stillborn, and turned to save the mother. Frank survived because his grandmother snatched him up and put him under the cold-water faucet...
Though the VIPs get the headlines, the hospitals really exist for the benefit of their workaday patients: servicemen, who pay nothing, and their dependents, who pay $1.75 a day. Between them, the hospitals care for 32,000 bed patients a year-some flown in from ships of the Navy, Army posts and Air Force bases scattered around the world. Each general hospital is the hub of a great medical center, designed for teaching and research as well as patient-care. Walter Reed and Bethesda are constantly and quietly pioneering along many medical lines...
...Henry Plus Riesman. Centralism works wonders for Hal Hingham. He moves out of his roach-ridden boardinghouse and into a smart hotel; he gets waiters to seat him where he wishes; he sweeps a startled Rose into bed with her clothes on after a three-year kissless courtship. And in one day on the road, he sells enough insurance to become one of Arcadia's top-ranking salesmen and nearly violate the Centralist rule of moderation...