Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even shocked, after this reception, to be taken into another room by a very charming young lady, told to remove my coat and to lie down on a cot. Another young lady came to the bed and started to question me further about my medical past. At this point my ego had been inflated to the extreme, and I took this woman into my confidence and explained that they really didn't have to go to all this effort, that I intended to renew my subscription anyway...
...last jet was shot off, Hanley snapped awake, suddenly aware of a strange hissing noise coming from the giant hydraulic catapult mechanism on the deck just over his head. He was hardly out of bed before he felt the soft concussion of a flash-fire explosion, then the rending blast of a second that shook Big Ben from stem to stern...
...wailing strains of Yetopia Xezb Mezmur, the Ethiopian national anthem, Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie I officially began a seven-week royal tour of North America at Washington's National Airport, stopped off at the White House, spent the night there in Abraham Lincoln's bed...
...moonlight on the bank of a dried river bed in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Central Luzon. He was softspoken, clear-eyed and warm in manner; he impressed me as a nationalist first and a Communist second. Taruc said: "The people have spoken and overwhelmingly elected President Magsaysay.It is for us to accept their verdict..." He said he was ready to "negotiate a peace settlement." Then, with his followers, he melted into the jungle...
Augie's peccadillo reforms him. He is soon spending days in the unaccustomed pursuit of earning a living, and nights in his own bed. Before long, he qualifies for adoptive fatherhood. Then, to his horror, the agency gives him his own child. For a while poor Augie sees himself cast as a tragic Greek hero being buffeted by Fate, but a surprise ending enables him to become a normal, happy commuter buffeted only by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad...