Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once workers left the building and students became 'sensitized' and were more careful about smoking and fireplace smoke." It is hard to attribute alarms between four and six a.m. to the workmen or to someone forgetting to open his flue. How many times must we be dragged out of bed before we become "sensitized...
Prime was arrested last April for a sex offense involving a 14-year-old girl. Shortly afterward, his wife Rhona discovered spying equipment under a bed and reported it to the police. Eventually, Prime confessed to being both a spy and a sex offender. During the two-hour trial at London's historic Old Bailey, Lord Lane sentenced Prime to an additional three years in prison for molesting three young girls. Said Lane: "Your ruthlessness is demonstrated not only by what you did with this country's secrets but by what you did to those girls. You made...
...does Benjamin Evett as a surprisingly young and hip friar Lawrence, who appears to function essentially as Romeo's freshman proctor. (In one of the show's nicest and most economical touches. Romeo, visiting Lawrence's cell grabs a Coke from the fridge before settling down on the bed to confess.) Rauch occasionally requires this thoroughly alert crew to do something odd--kill one another with picnic cutlery, for instance, or mutely clutch miscellaneous blankets and bedding around their shoulders in mourning for Juliet's initial "death." But the cast tends to rise to even the most arbitrary occasion...
...Thompson voted on Tuesday morning, a winner's smile flashed across his broad face. Only two days before, a Gallup poll showed the bluff 6-ft. 6-in. Republican Governor leading his mild-mannered opponent, Adlai Stevenson III, by 16 points. But when Thompson went to bed at 2 Wednesday morning, the corners of his smile had turned downward: he was leading by just over 1%. By midday Thursday, as votes were still being tabulated, he was wearing a full-fledged frown of dismay: with more than 3.5 million votes cast, the once confident Thompson was leading...
...other stories, miscommunication takes place right at home, especially--where else--in bed. And this is where Atwood whips irony to a thick, using her acrid insight to turn human ambivalence on its back. In "The Grave of the Famous Poet" the narrator relates...