Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physician but a chemist, a man who had never been interviewed by a newsman until the announcement came from Stockholm, a man who had never been listed in the Who's Who of his adopted country. For good measure, the distinguished laureate-to-be was ill in bed with what he believed to be Asian flu when the Swedish ambassador called to deliver the news...
...Billy Graham was unwarily inspecting his flock of three sheep near his North Carolina mountain home. A few seconds later, Farmer Graham picked himself up, cut and bruised, some fifty feet down the mountainside. The winner: a surly Suffolk ram, scoring three hits, no errors. Said Billy, from his bed of pain: "I turned the other cheek...
...into the Garden, conned CBS-TV into paying some $300,000 to carry the shambles to the nation, conned most of the gifts and goodies without cost from publicity-seeking businessmen. When the colossal display of vulgarity and effrontery flamed out long after midnight, Todd was long gone (to bed). Few had tasted the wretched champagne (the waiters had quickly begun hawking it at up to $7 a bottle), fewer had eaten the truck-borne smorgasbord, almost none of the guests left with gifts, although a passel of greedy looters and gate-crashers made off with enough lightweight plunder...
...Autobahn linking West Berlin and West Germany. Armed Red police forbade anyone to leave East Berlin and searched anyone trying to enter it. With his state thus sealed off, East German Premier Grotewohl went on the air at 8 a.m. Sunday to jolt his people out of bed. Grotewohl gave East Germans just 14 hours to hand in all their currency. Sleepy-eyed, they rushed to special conversion centers to get one new mark for each old one. No one was allowed to carry away more than 300 of the new marks (about $16); the rest was payable after...
...does his best friend Heinrich, whose father was also killed on the Eastern front. It meant that Father was replaced by an "uncle." Sometimes the uncles are nice, like Martin's Uncle Albert, who shares the same house as Martin's mother, but not her bed. Sometimes they are crabbed and cruel, like Heinrich's Uncle Leo, the last of a long succession of uncles who moved in with his mother, stayed a while, and moved...