Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost three fingers of his left hand and his left eye. He fought Pathan tribes men in India, Irishmen in Ireland, his own superior officers wherever they blocked him. He fought slackness in his men, sometimes seemed even to consider death a kind of slackness. Halting at the bed side of a soldier critically ill with a mastoid infection, Wintle snapped: "It is an offense for a dragoon to die in bed. You will get better at once. And when you do, see that you get your hair...
...morning, as the Pacific purred foamily on the beach at Santa Monica, California's robustious Republican Governor Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight, 58, was awakened by stealthy sounds in the bedroom of his waterfront apartment. Turning on a lamp, he saw a crouching prowler beside wife Virginia's bed. Never better in a crisis, Goody Knight, a nocturnal symphony in blue and white pajamas, leaped up, lunged toward the intruder, shouting, "I'll get him! You call the cops!" As Virginia screamed girlishly, the crook escaped over a 5-ft. wall outside. Later, Knight puffed proudly: "He sure...
...Without trying for any speed records, the Air Force's experimental XF-84H swept-wing turboprop fighter made its first flight at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Designed as a flying test bed for supersonic propellers, the long-range XF-84H is the first single-engine turboprop fighter to use an afterburner to provide jetlike climbing power. For a landing, its three-bladed, more than 3,000 r.p.m. propeller simply goes into reverse and enables the new turboprop to use far less runway than...
...roly-poly youngster. Campy sold newspapers, cut grass, shined shoes. Mornings he got up at 2:30 to help his older brother Lawrence run a milk route. By 5:30 he was back in bed; at 8 he was on his way to school. Always, young Roy's income was turned over to his mother, and always, his allowance was spent on movies or a ball game. Shibe Park (now Connie Mack Stadium) was within walk ing distance of the Campanella home, and any afternoon there was a game. Roy was there, too. For a quarter a kid could...
Later when the deal was finally sewn up, O'Neil was flown back to General Tire's Akron headquarters to get the board's approval, finally stumbled into bed, groaning: "I haven't had any sleep for 36 hours. He's a very clever man, a very clever man." Hughes's estimated profit: about...