Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those boys has changed his mind and is coming home. I just know it's Ed." Said Bessie: "I just know it's Ed too, Dave." Later she mused, "Of course, I'll bet every mother listening thought the same thing. But we went to bed with the feeling. Then later in the night Keith and Thelma Marrs came a-pounding and honking, trying to wake us up ... and they told us they had heard Ed's name on the radio and he was coming back. We was shore happy...
Hill, "just don't operate that way. Jonathan, 14, has not yet been late. You have, to beg him to stop studying and go to bed. He even works out lessons ahead. He has started saying 'Yes, sir,' 'Yes, thank you,' and 'No, thank you' just like a civilized human being . . . One night he did homework until midnight and then rushed off in the morning without breakfast. I made inquiry that evening: 'What if you didn't have your prep (that's English for homework)? . . . What if you went without...
...best time to get into the cattle business," said J. Douglas Gay Jr., newly elected president of the American Hereford Association. "When you're sleeping on the floor, you can't fall out of bed. If the cattle market is not on the bottom now, it's awfully close. The only direction...
...Greek and means . . . 'God-inspired.'" Husbands also need "building-up"("Praise his taste in ties") and constant reassurance (tell him "he's going to knock those buyers dead!"). The conviction that hubby is a roaring success must be maintained "at home, across the breakfast table, in bed." It must not be undermined by cracks. Never greet your husband with the words: "Well, how's the Boy Genius? Did you bring home any commissions? I suppose you know the rent is due next week?" Other ways to egg a man on: watch his "calorie intake." take...
...when injustice prevails . . . Americans are eternally surprised . . . Nothing ever surprised the British and the Romans, who considered the most desperate and illogical behavior on the part of foreigners only natural ... At the bottom of these excessive [U.S.] hopes there may be apathy. Men who get out of bed only for the greatest crusades-to change the face of the world, and to right all wrongs forever-are apparently reluctant to accept everyday, nonrevolutionary tasks...