Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of an 18-man task force to direct the operation. The mission got off to a fine start when the Windsors arrived in Portugal, en route to the Bahamas, and found the British embassy swarming with refugees seeking aid. The British ambassador, desperate for a place to bed them down, finally settled on a proffered villa in Estoril, only to find too late that it was the home of a pro-Nazi Portuguese banker, who stayed on to play host to the visitors...
...French sex, and the play becomes bikini. Interspersed with rationalistic salvos are a crescendo of kisses, lovers entwined like vine leaves on a Greek frieze and racy gods until the romp is reduced to a gala Gallic gaiety and the comedy verges on hedonism. Frankly, three hours of the bed become boring...
...Native Laws amended so that he now has control of practically every social contact between the races, even in white areas-schools, hospitals, clubs and churches. Stubbornly self-reliant Minister Verwoerd (pronounced Fairvoort) boasts that not one of his seven children has ever been bathed or put to bed by an African servant. Like most stout Boer nationalists, he holds that God intended that races be kept apart. The church clause in the new law gives him power to ban mixed worship in a white residential area if he thinks that the Negroes are causing a nuisance...
...preferably mixed doubles with husband as partner). And, to the relief of women who have spent as much as four or five months on their backs only to lose their babies anyway, he firmly opposes (except in the rarest of cases) one of the most onerous of all prescriptions: bed rest...
...climate, sickness, isolation and uncleared land. They learned to practice forbearance with one another, but not to swallow the personal resentments that were bound to arise: they made a rule that any member who is angry at another must quietly have it out with him before he goes to bed that night. They learned to find emotional outlets with festivals conducted with singing, dancing and theatricals, games and wine. They learned how to select the right man for the right job by group consensus, and to accept the group decision as to what duties or what equipment would be assigned...