Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winds would not chase away the low-hanging clouds over Cape Canaveral, Mission Control in Houston sent up the gloomy message: rather than attempt a first-ever shuttle landing at Kennedy, Challenger would put down on its next orbit (its 98th) on the dried-out lake bed in the Mojave Desert where shuttles have come home from space on five previous occasions. True to the Right Stuff test-pilot tradition from which he hails, Navy Captain Robert Crippen, 45, Challenger's commander and the only space veteran on board, acknowledged the decision with cool resignation. Said he: "Well...
Many nonprofit hospitals are working with the successful hospital corporations to cut costs. Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, a 670-bed public facility, is saving more than $1 million per year using an inventory-control system designed with the cooperation of the American Hospital Supply Corp. Maimonides saved $360,000 last year, for instance, by using A.H.S.C.'s house brand of supplies instead of buying in the open market. Says Maimonides Administrator William Horner: "I gave our medical staff a choice. I told our chief of surgery that if we used the non-name products, we could...
...upon beginning his fifth book. The Tennis Handsome opens with two pieces from Airships (1978), Hannah's highly praised collection of short stories. The first, Return to Return, retells the gothic catastrophe of French Edward, a good-looking tennis pro who discovers his mother in bed with his supposedly homosexual coach, nearly drowns in the Mississippi River and is fished out with most of his mental capacities washed away. He lives on as an automaton who is still a terror on the courts. The second reprised story, Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet, deals chiefly with Captain...
Another scrape, and no scratches. Another nuclear holocaust averted, and now another woman-the good one, he guessed. All's right with NATO and so to bed, with two martinis, shaken but not stirred, like 007 himself. Bond raised his glass and looked meaningfully into What's-Her-Name's green eyes. "Here's to survival, darling," he said just before he fell asleep...
...ineffable. Friends and family lean forward in their pews. The clergyperson beams inscrutably, abetting the thing, but keeping counsel. The guests are both fascinated and faintly appalled to be privy to such intense and theatrical whisperings. John Lennon and Yoko Ono once held press conferences while lying in bed, and the effect of the self-made vows is sometimes obscurely the same...