Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...border strife has left some 100,000 Chinese in the Guangxi region homeless and forced the government to open refugee camps further inland. Many villagers have not been able to return to their homes. Pingmeng's 20-bed hospital, which was abandoned after the 1979 war, still bears the scars of the fighting. Other buildings have been damaged by Vietnamese mortar rounds. On a single day last April, Chinese officials claim, 120 shells fired from across the border landed in Pingmeng. Townspeople reported that a month ago 13 rounds of Vietnamese rifle fire struck the town. Many fled...
...were Luis Zapata and Reginald Fischer, both area residents. Driving abreast was Truck Driver David Pace, hauling a load of empty beer bottles to Hartford and accompanied in the cab by his wife. "I felt my wheels going soft on me," Pace told his father later from a hospital bed. "I screamed to Helen to duck and grab the pillow because we're going down." Eileen Weldon of nearby Darien, driving alone in her car, sailed off into the dark river too and survived. The Paces, seriously injured, were snatched out of the water by a fisherman...
...three months, and will be compiled in a 1,000-page summary report early this fall. Some are quite specific: as an example of the expense of federal medical facilities, the group cites a Veterans Administration hospital in The Bronx that cost nearly twice as much to build per bed as some private facilities. Others are more sweeping: the Government's 19,300 computers are often incompatible with one another, share no common base of reliable data, use different accounting systems, and operate with obsolete technology. "The whole data-processing thing is one big mess," asserted Grace...
...actually live together under one roof. In such close quarters, there are no secrets. When Martin finds that he is impotent, for example, the rest of Artifat finds out too. Perhaps the hallmark of this communal living is the scene in which the wedding guests gather around the nuptial bed, tossing advice and lewd jokes to the newlyweds blushing under the covers. Small wonder Martin rolls over and goes to sleep as soon as they've left the room...
...America's Victorian homes, even the furniture functioned to keep sensual passion at bay. "Celebrated physicians have condemned the double bed," warned a crusader for moral and physical hygiene in the 1890s. "The air which surrounds the body under the bed clothing is exceedingly impure, being impregnated with the poisonous substances which have escaped through the pores of the skin." Similarly, parlor chairs were designed to keep the sexes separate and unequal. The gentlemen's chairs were "akin to thrones," according to this diverting account of everyday life in the Victorian era. While men sat back comfortably...