Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more intimate dinner with top Chinese leaders at the Diaoyutai guesthouse, a onetime imperial fishing resort more than 800 years old where the presidential couple will be staying. The Reagans will reside in a renovated villa, complete with indoor garden and an imposing replica of a Ming dynasty dragon bed with a pillared canopy. The Americans will give their own spread: 600 guests at the Great Wall Hotel for roast tom turkey, accompanied by seafood mousse and praline ice cream. About 220 lbs. of frozen poultry were flown to Peking two weeks ago, but the Reagans will personally bring...
...Chinese knows that without Chairman Mao there would be no new China." At the same time, he has not restrained the official press from indicting the shaping hand of Chinese Communism for "subjectivity, one-sidedness, hauteur and lack of humility." Most cunning of all, Deng has stretched the procrustean bed of Maoism to fit his own needs. By adapting such Maoist phrases as "seeking truth from facts" and "the mass line" to his own purposes, he has given the impression that he has been more faithful to "the thought of Mao" than the Great Helmsman himself...
...Bell family of Winnsboro, S.C., had no such luck. Ulese Bell, 52, and his son Ulese Jr. dived under a bed as the funnel approached. But Maude Bell, 48, wanted to see the storm's awful majesty. "She just walked out of the room and into the den to watch the hail fall," says Ulese. "Within three or four seconds, wham! The house just collapsed." Ulese dug his wife of 28 years out of the rubble, but she never regained consciousness...
Nine days later Jimmy woke up. Recalls Pediatrician Paulette Harar at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where the boy has been since Feb. 28: "He would lie on the bed sucking his thumb, curled up in a little ball. There commands like 'Sit up' or Steadfast work with therapists has helped Jimmy regain control over movement, speech and thought...
Clark had advised me, in the course of our first confrontation that evening, that it would be "best to go to bed, and maybe it will all blow over in the morning." When I did go to bed, a long time afterward, my thoughts were deeply disturbed by the dangerous implications of a situation in which a presidential assistant, especially one of limited experience and limited understanding of the volatile nature of an international conflict, should assume...