Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington lawyer, 28, spent a month in bed with her first bout, then stayed drunk for half a year, dividing her time between ritualistic repetitions of the phrase "This hasn't happened to me" and harsh daydreams of revenge against the man who gave her the disease. She stopped wearing makeup, ironing her clothes and shaving her legs. "I felt as though someone had pulled the plug," she says, "and let all my sexuality and self-confidence swirl down the drain...
When or whether to tell a date that you have herpes is a thorny matter. The only agreement these days is that you don't do the telling in bed. Says a Seattle secretary: "Never in the bedroom. You can't make management decisions there." Among sufferers, there is a feeling that women are more moral and honest than men about confessing to the disease. Says Fran Simon, a p.r. woman for a Philadelphia hospital: "I sure as hell wouldn't want it on my conscience, passing the disease on to somebody." But a quick admission amounts to a warning...
...blackened spot where the car had exploded, the men on horseback saluted the fallen with upraised swords. It was a typically British display of 2 grit. Prime Minister Thatcher visited wounded members of the Green Jackets in London's St. Mary's Hospital. She moved from bed to bed and stopped to console Gillian Ward, 22, whose husband David, a clarinet player, lay heavily bandaged. Said Thatcher: "These brave young men are an example to us all." Sadly, too many more innocent men and women will be called upon for such bravery as long as cold-blooded terror...
Reggie Jackson, 36, California Angels outfielder, on his current boss, Gene Autry, and his former boss, Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner: "Autry's a superdad kind of guy. I was used to a guy who scolds you and sends you to bed without dinner...
...climbed through a window to roam the vast palace corridors. Fagan must have given Her Majesty quite a start. Reportedly, he wore jeans and a dirty T shirt, and dripped blood on the royal bedclothes from a lacerated hand. He cradled a broken ashtray as he sat on her bed. But he made no threatening moves against the 56-year-old monarch, preferring instead to chat about the coincidence that each of them has four children. Pagan's mother Ivy told the Daily Mail, "He thinks so much of the Queen. I can imagine him just wanting to simply...