Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Criminality" in the May 30 issue: . . . To make criminal any sexual activity in which husband and wife engage with mutual consent and love is . . . ridiculous. What married people do in bed is no more the business of lawmakers than is the way they cook their eggs when they...
Pigs & Rats. As had no other incident, the murder shocked France into a sense of urgency. Premier Faure was roused from bed at 3 a.m. in Paris to hear the news. Next morning he rushed off to see Lemaigre's widow, then summoned Pierre July. Minister for Tunisia and Morocco, for urgent consultation. Emerging from this meeting, July declared bluntly: "Counter-terrorism . . . once again has dishonored France." He sent France's No. 1 cop, Roger Wybot, to investigate the murder and reorganize Casablanca's police force...
...eyes, no bulges swell his lean flanks. As a machinist, after a 13-hour factory day, he used to do calisthenics or swim at the Y. After a speech or meeting away from Detroit, he used to hike six or seven miles late at night before going to bed. A powerhouse of physical energy, he bounces and bounds with swift, long strides...
...works 12 to 18 hours a day, usually lunches on a sandwich at his desk, a 12-ft.-long kidney-shaped masterpiece that he designed himself. While reading or talking, Reuther scribbles incessantly in notebooks, jotting down his jet-stream of ideas (even in bed, at night, when he thinks of something, he gets up to make a note of it). The U.A.W.'s top officials have all picked up the habit; when called, they pick up their notebooks and gather around Reuther's kidney-shaped command post. If they argue too long, he snaps: "I think...
...private, Mr. Patience and Captain Thornhill often dropped the mask of formality and addressed each other as "Roy" and "Noel," but Patience continued his devoted and impeccable service, even to the extent of tucking the new lord of the manor in bed each night...