Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senators, led by New Jersey's Clifford Case (but not including Minority Leader William Knowland), issued a joint statement applauding the plan. From his Bethesda hospital bed Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was quick to send a ringing endorsement. "The President's proposal," he said, "is the daring, imaginative stroke for which a war-weary world has been waiting. It will test the good faith of the Communists and separate the warmongers from the peacemakers. The American people yearn for peace-peace that will maintain their traditional freedoms . . . This proposal is our pledge of sincerity and good faith...
...tractor has broken down; the hay truck is broken down; the hay wagon has collapsed, dumping 50 bales of hay in the middle of the driveway, and my farmer has lacerated his arm on a hay hook. Besides, it is hot. I think I will just go back to bed, cough for a while, and take it easy. And that would be the best thing you can do, too. Cordially, Adlai...
After two hours under siege, Hostess Mesta and her luggage were rescued by the U.S. chargé d'affaires, but 50 other Americans in the hotel lost all their belongings. The Majestic was left without a pane of glass, a bed or a bidet intact...
...Blind River's four "beverage rooms" added new tables, took on hefty waiters able to cope with bush-happy prospectors with fat bankrolls and big appetites for excitement. Job seekers, claim speculators, boomers arrived on every train, sifted in through the fire escapes of the Harmonic Hotel to bed down in bathtubs and corridors after all the rooms were taken...
...shopkeeper named MacDougal. Author Goyen's point is that great emotional disunity results when so many different elements are present, e.g., how can a woman dream about "birds and bells in a romantic musical city" when a guy with a name like MacDougal is trying to climb into bed with her? How can she capture the ravishing spells of Old Spain amid the gasoline smells of West 23rd Street...