Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians have kept leak-tight security on the missile program. Western travelers in the Soviet have spotted no missiles save for Nike-type anti-aircraft birds around Moscow and a few others on flat-bed trucks in Moscow parades. This gives rise to a Western suspicion that the Russians are not so advanced in missilery as the Sputniks would indicate. Nevertheless, the U.S. radar posts have "watched" 800-mile flights from the Krasny Yar missile range and from the island of Novaya Zemlya off the northern coast in the Arctic Sea; and the Russians have shot an ICBM thousands...
...block area around Roias' residence. A police colonel and a squad of soldiers hustled the ex-dictator off to a nearby office building, where a Senate committee was meeting to draw up the corruption indictments. After a two-hour grilling, the witness went home and to bed...
Arias for Dolls. A solemn, solitary child, Renata started playing the piano when she was eight. Grandfather occasionally took her over to the opera house in Parma, and Renata took to putting her dolls to bed at night while singing Parigi, O cara from La Traviata. By ten, her voice was so penetrating that the merchants downstairs complained...
...crowd at the shopping center. We have to be in Flint by 9-there's a real good shopping center there. Then we may get home by 11 and that will give me a couple of hours to catch up on paper work so I can get to bed by I -always like to turn in by 1. Then I won't have anything to do until 7 in the morning. I want to be at the Buick plant then...
Clarke's first attempt fails (nothing comes easy to a Shute hero), and he returns exhausted to Pascoe's house in Buxton, broods over Pascoe's mementos, stumbles to Pascoe's bed in Pascoe's pajamas. He dreams and, through a not-too-convincing display of Shute magic, becomes transformed into the Johnny Pascoe of World War I: an ace in the air, a hellion on the ground, the lover and husband of Dancer Judy Lester. Clarke's next dream carries him, as Johnny Pascoe, through the years between the wars, disillusionment and divorce...