Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anticlimax. Exhausted, Mendès went to bed. A few minutes later, at 2:42 a.m., the cease-fire agreements for Laos and Viet Nam were signed by second-tier officials in a small room off the main council chamber in the Palais des Nations. The ceremony, watched only by a handful of photographers and minor officials, took just 7½ minutes. Ten hours later, the gallant Cambodians signed the revised agreement that may some day make the difference between freedom and Communist slavery for them and for Laos...
...Different Kind." Nearly all the centenarians had always slept well and enjoyed good health. Asked "about how many days of your life have you spent in bed? Give reasons," one old lady crossed out the "about" and wrote: "Exactly 45 days. Reason, nine children." Adds Dr. Dunbar: "Centenarians, as contrasted with sufferers from 'diseases of old age,' appear to be a different kind of human being." Most have reasonably good vision and hearing, some are amazingly active, and many have a number of their own teeth...
Father Doing Well. They found Paula, a chunky, black-haired woman, sprawled on the only bed, her head thrust back in agony. While Dr. Martin examined her for signs of toxemia or a breech (butt-or feetfirst) delivery, the rest of the team spread newspapers over the furniture and set up equipment in the tiny kitchen. As they worked, Benjamin, the father, hovered anxiously in the background. A faulty electric fan started a fire, which Benjamin hastily...
...nerves had cracked. Brandishing a pistol, he locked the door, announced that he would kill the doctors unless the baby was delivered safely by midnight. Wasting no time in argument, the team got on with the job and delivered twin boys well before the deadline. Looking from the bed, the doctor found that the father had fainted...
...studying the well-kept cave dwellings, Perrot could form a pretty good idea of the lives and customs of the pre-Abraham Horites. They were farmers who got water from the bed of a nearby wadi and stored it in underground cisterns. They had sheep, cattle and dogs, but no horses or asses. They grew barley, wheat, lentils and peas. Two of their barley varieties are still grown today, but their wheat is a novel type not found even in ancient Egypt. The harvested grain was stored in underground chambers or in massive earthenware jars for current...