Word: bedded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kentucky's Clay County Walter Webb came to be considered almost immortal until vengeance drew a good bead on him this month and he turned out to be only human. Last week 900 mourners climbed up the jagged dirt road-really a dry creek-bed-to his farm for the burial. "There was tears shed from every, eye," said his daughter Zola. "It was the most hurt crowd I ever saw." Three ministers invoked blessings and golden chrysanthemums were piled high on the grave. Then the kinfolk and the curious drifted away, leaving Widow Doric Webb and the five...
Though board rates have gone up and maid service is going out, the departments controlling food and bed-making made clear profits in 1953-54, according to the Financial Report of the College released by Treasurer Paul C. Cabot this week...
...mothers). Most UMs are under 20, victims of a lie, or of violence, or possessors of an over-generous nature. One of the most tragic cases in St. Anne's history: a ravished child of eleven who still believed in Santa Claus and carried a rag doll to bed with her each night. For the rest, "we get a girl who has slipped," Sister Winifred says, "but who is trying to do what is right...
...infirmary at Central State, patients have been retrained and sent to more open, hopeful wards. All are out of bed, wearing clothes, and lining up regularly for a hot meal. Throughout the hospital, drugs such as chlorpromazine (TIME, June 14) are used along with music therapy to bring patients out of their withdrawn states. Straitjackets. "camisoles" and irons have vanished; solitary confinement has been cut to a minimum...
Suppose, says Toynbee, a pixie Lady of the Lake sees her inviolate body of water sullied by "an audacious backwoodsman's canoe." Acting as a Zealot, she will use her supernatural power to freeze the water solid. As a Herodian, she will eventually drain her lake bed dry. But in either case, says Toynbee, she will only transform her lake into a road and let in the "landlubber dry-shod." Roughly translated into the different, present-day situation (in which the West is very far from being "at bay"), the Zealots might advocate stringent repression of all hostile ideas...