Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applying for welfare, and instead began offering basic room and board in its Bannon Street shelter. It is the first poorhouse established in California since the institution fell into disrepute in the mid-1930s. House rules are strict: residents are awakened every day at 6 a.m. and receive a "bed check" at 9 p.m. Liquor, drugs and sex are forbidden, and smoking is not allowed in the dormitories. For entertainment, the shelter provides Bible classes and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. For up to seven days a month, the 70 or so men and women who live at the shelter must work...
...bizarre case began on Jan. 25. That night, prosecutors contend, Anthony Bruno, the 20-year-old boyfriend of Toto's 17-year-old daughter Elizabeth, crept into Toto's bedroom, located the .25-cal. gun that Toto kept near his bed and fired a bullet into his head. Toto was grievously but not fatally wounded...
...Hawke's two years. But more often, he devoted too much energy to disparaging Hawke's politics and too little to detailing his own. Having accused Hawke of "socialism by stealth," Fraser somewhat hysterically warned voters that under a Labor government "savings would be safer under your bed than in the bank." His alarmist charges succeeded mainly in bewildering the banking community and alienating voters. At one point, Hawke retorted archly, "You can't put your savings under the bed because that's where all the Commies...
...more-alarms, out-of-the-room method is a succession of three or four bells or buzzers which go off at regular intervals of ten minutes or so. The alarms start softly, perhaps with music. As you turn each one off, you are allowed to go back to bed until the last one rings. The succession of alarms will have taken you out of the room slowly. Usually the last alarm is the most obnoxious, just in case you're tempted to sleep through it. The best story I heard was from one sophomore who lived next to the bathroom...
...When his alarm wakes him up, he takes the No-Doz and goes back to sleep until the drug wakes him up. He says it works for him, but I've noticed how spaced out this person acts and I don't recommend it. Instead, go to bed at a decent hour so when that buzzer rings you won't get alarmed...