Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough and tantalizing course every afternoon. He found his drives booming, his short game mediocre but good enough to score him in the high 80s. Evenings, in a long-established vacation ritual, were spent around the bridge table at "Mamie's Cottage." (Mamie herself took to her bed for a two-day rest, flew back to Washington at week's end to get ready for a heavy social week...
...husband's shamefaced trip to the seaside resort of Brighton accompanied by a hired "corespondent." There was the train trip down trailed by two hired detectives who carefully avoided speaking to him; the registration in the cold hotel as "Mr. and Mrs."; the embarrassed moments in the double bed beside the girl in a nightgown, he reading a newspaper, she munching sweets as they waited for the housemaid to bring breakfast and witness the incriminating scene. At least three breakfasts on three mornings were considered essential. Until 1857, only Parliament could grant a divorce, and did so at about...
...Atomic Age: the rocket Honest John and the guided missile Corporal; the vast, complicated network of control panels and radar screens and radio beams that will aim and fire the supersonic Corporal at an enemy perhaps 200 miles away; the surprisingly agile 30-ton missile-carrying trucks; the truck-bed cranes called "cherry pickers" and the devastating wallop itself: atomic warheads. Today's army, SETAF is armed and ready for tomorrow's atomic...
...cross wills with "Meru," an Everest-class glacial peak, and coaxes the long-suffering Gerry to join him. They fail to scale the summit and Gerry comes back to the Savage home a nervous wreck, to be nursed back to health by Emily. She makes convalescent Gerry's bed and eventually lies in it. World War I shatters their illicit bliss and sweeps the two meninto their last mountain adventure this time in the Italian Alps. Gerry is killed, and back in England Peter is confronted with Emily's maternity gown and the hush-lipped word: "Gerry...
...Stilly Night. Near Kevil, Ky., lightning split and hurled the headboard of their bed across the room, scorched the mattress and bed linen, awakened but did not injure Harvey Tucker and his wife...