Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev was deliberately casual about the satellite itself ("they phoned me and told me ... I congratulated the entire group of engineers and technicians on this outstanding achievement and calmly went to bed"), suggesting that the Sputnik was the least of the rocket wonders the Soviet had up its sleeve, and that in view of these the West's bombers and bases were already useless. "If you study our latest proposals, you will no longer find any mention of control posts at airfields ... It is useless to create control posts to watch obsolete airplanes." He developed the point with even...
There is an interesting parallel between American and Soviet reactions to the launching of the artificial satellite. Nikita Krushchev "congratulated the engineers and technicians and calmly went to bed;" President Eisenhower let the world know "I am not disturbed, not one iota." There were others, however, in the United States who were disturbed, and many who did not go to bed calmly after hearing the news...
Cross country coach Bill McCurdy received the crowning blow yesterday when Dyke Benjamin, his number two runner, was sent to bed with an acute case of poison...
This means his top five runners will be either in poor shape or in bed for Friday's triangular meet with Columbia and Penn in New York, but McCurdy said "We'll lick them anyhow...
...time is the near future; the place, the U.S.; the heroine, beautiful Dagny Taggart, a stainless-steel executive who runs a transcontinental railroad with the same chilling efficiency she displays in bed with various deserving tycoons. But dauntless Dagny is having troubles. Her railroad keeps breaking down. The best businessmen begin to vanish mysteriously. Oilfields flame in the night, copper mines are destroyed, docks blow skyhigh, steel mills collapse in chaos. Finally Dagny catches on: her fellow capitalists have gone on strike...