Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...died of cancer here, but he said he wanted to go home when the end was very near; he barely beat the clock with the help of a limousine. At his house, he told his wife when they laid him down, "I'm never going to leave this bed again." Johnny Weissmuller was here, but lucidity began to elude him in the darkest hours, and he took to wandering into other rooms, booming that famous Tarzan yell, and they had to take him away. The ape man is now being attended to in a villa in Acapulco...
...differences, however, do not extend very far into the looks of the facilities. The 180-bed hospital has only private rooms, but other than that it is stainless steel, gurneys, casters clacking on tile-a hospital. The cafeteria in the basement has tables galore but very few chairs because here, as elsewhere where people are ill, they come to dinner already seated...
...Lions." The Motor City has got neither. With unemployment at 20% overall, and nearly 35% for blacks, Mayor Coleman Young last month declared a "hunger emergency." City agencies estimate that as many as one-third of the city's 1.2 million residents go to bed hungry every night. The Federal Government sent 17,000 lbs. of frozen turkeys, but Young wants money more than poultry. He warned that some cities and states face bankruptcy unless Washington loosens the purse strings. Said the mayor: "It seems as if Washington doesn't know what's going...
Florida's Everglades, a unique mixture of rain forest, wildlife refuge and the world's largest cultivated organic soil bed, stretches 100 miles from Lake Okeechobee in the north to Florida Bay at the state's southern tip. Once the marshland measured an average 45 miles in width; today it extends 35 miles. Little of the land is in its pristine state. Huge tracts have been drained for agricultural and residential development, and thousands of miles of man-made canals have diverted the water from natural channels. Even much of the 62% of land lying within...
Meanwhile, Sagan has remained imperturbably on course, charting the manners of France's Beautiful People who inhabit the milieu of high fashion, advertising and show business. Those of her novels that appeared in the U.S., such as A Certain Smile, Aimez-Vous Brahms? and The Unmade Bed, came across as high-class pop fiction à la française with predictable complements of cuckolds, betrayed mistresses and golden-eyed lovers...