Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back to her brandy-swigging guardian, Aunt Morgen, every night. She has the looks and manners of a mouse, the brains of a flea and a fondness for cocoa ("Miserable puny stuff," snorts Aunt Morgen, "fit for kittens and unwashed boys"). Backaches and migraine headaches pin Elizabeth to her bed every so often, and Aunt Morgen is solicitous until she finds the girl sneaking out of the house in the small hours. Accused of a secret romance or worse, Elizabeth draws a blank and claims to know nothing of her nocturnal jaunts. What worries Elizabeth far more are the scrawled...
Although Dunham, according to Sawyer, "quit the Communist around 1946," in 1947 he wrote a book, "Man Against Myth-an analysis of social superstitions," which the New York' Times Book Review called a distortion of "history to fit the Procrustean bed of his Marxist convictions...
Last month Cheshire made a weekend trip to the shrine at Lourdes. The experience moved him deeply and gave him an idea. Working from his hospital bed, he promptly put it into practice. His plan: to organize a series of airborne pilgrimages to Lourdes by friends of invalids, on the invalids' behalf. Last week the first group of 25 spent a weekend at the shrine (cost: about $36 each...
...itself, chlorpromazine is a star performer. For several types of mental patients, especially senile psychotics, it serves as a highly effective relaxer. After a few doses, says Dr. Charles Wesler Scull of Smith, Kline & French (the U.S. manufacturers), patients who were formerly violent or withdrawn lie "molded to the bed." When a doctor enters the room, they sit up and talk sense with him, perhaps for the first time in months. There is no thought that chlorpromazine is any cure for mental illness, but it can have great value if it relaxes patients and makes them accessible to treatment...
...staff cross the Champs-Elysées to a gym where, in identical blue gym suits, they work out for at least an hour. After the workout he returns to his office, works until he falls asleep, and is awakened by a night editor, who sends him home to bed...