Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Host of Gadgets. To the patient himself, the most conspicuous features of the ultramodern hospital are conveniences and creature comforts. First comes privacy: there are single and double rooms, and four-bed wards-nothing bigger. Every room is air-and sound-conditioned. Each has a two-way intercom system connecting with the nearest nurses' station, to save time, trouble, steps and tempers. Instead of hospital buff, most rooms are decorated with restful greys or greens, punctuated with cheery areas of brighter color. Pictures are changed often, but when the patient can stand the sight of one no longer...
...brought to his attention by Lawyer Huel Love of Talladega. What with Hewlett's carryings-on and the crowds of people tramping in and out to look at her living-room ceiling. Mrs. Hodges eventually retired to the hospital with an attack of nerves. She was put to bed with sedatives, but could not sleep...
Stretched out on his plain brass bed, retching in pain, the Pope seemed first to be suffering an appendicitis attack; then, as evidence of intestinal hemorrhage appeared, the doctors feared a perforated ulcer. X rays were ordered. The sacrament of Extreme Unction was administered. Gradually the pain began to subside...
Reserve. In Oxford, England, James Adams, lying in bed in a hotel reading, glanced up when the door opened, watched without comment as John Grady, wearing only a shirt, raced across the room and disappeared through the open window to his death, later explained at the inquest: "I just stayed in bed until the police came. It was nothing to do with...
...were each sentenced to four months in jail for brawling, after Mario told the judge that he had lost his composure when his mother-in-law remarked: "I don't intend to let my daughter sleep alone with a man," insisted that she share the couple's bed or that he sleep alone on the wedding night, added to the insult by placing the bride's younger sister in the marital bed on the second night...