Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the month of March, 1951, the whole University seemed about to go up in flames. It was a anxious time for the Administration and many dormitory residents. On the first Saturday of the month, a Claverly Hall blaze forced students out of bed and into the street. Damages were set at $65,000 by fire marshals, who suspected that the blaze was intentionally started in a closer. Irate students blamed the University for irresponsibility in connection with the fire. Harvard, in turn, announced that it was under contract for the rooms and could take no responsibility for damages...
...brassy, sassy dialogue in the corners of some sizable Hollywood mouths,* set a standard few could imitate: "She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." The lady had a voice "that dragged itself out of her throat like a sick man getting out of bed." Dinner "tasted like a discarded mailbag." Since Detective Marlowe was acceptable to brows of every altitude, including snobbish Critic Edmund (Axel's Castle) Wilson, even parboiled eggheads could carry Chandler's thrillers under their arms without resorting to plain wrappers...
With the appearance of Mountolive, sex and sadness recede before the powerful thrust of politics. Many of the riddles posed in the earlier books get new answers. Pursewarden kills himself not from spiritual torpor but in expiation of a political blunder. Justine's fevered racing from bed to bed is shown to be patriotism, not nymphomania, for she and Nessim are smuggling arms into Palestine. Nessim believes that only the creation of a strong Jewish state will save the isolated minorities of the Middle East-Copts, Greeks, Armenians, Jews-from "being gradually engulfed by the Arab tide...
...Integration: "I think we can have integration as far as politics and human rights go without getting in bed with Negroes. I don't think anybody ever got pregnant by drinking out of the same water fountain...
Mutual's rise is one of the success stories in U.S. insurance history. But like many an old-line company, Mutual sowed some financial wild oats on the way up. It was frequently accused of giving policyholders a false sense of security with its promises, then yanking the bed sheet from under them when they got sick, citing the fine print of the contract. The company has also been involved in policyholder suits. One rose out of a decision by the company's officers in 1926 to set up a parallel life insurance company, using Mutual...