Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basketball net and worst of all, gave my NFL bedsheets to charity. My pennants lay in a forlorn pile at the bottom of my closet. In their place, my father's diplomas hange with mocking pride. His desk rests serenely where I used to shoot Nerf hoops. My bed, remade and reeducated, is now his couch. It's not that I wanted a mausoleum, but did they have to paint over the height lines marked so carefully years before on the back of my door...
...Harvard degree I wasn't going to recieve. On that day I thought of the many wonderful friends I had had and the chance that I would never see them again. I thought of my family. It was love that I cried for that day. From that bed I wanted to reach out and hold hands with everyone I had ever known...I vowed I would get off of that futon and fight the leukemia again just to have the chance to slow down and to love. There is nothing more important or more powerful...
...hotel suite munching on cold cuts. Most staffers had repaired to the crowded bar, leaving only a small coterie with the candidate, who had discarded his ever present coat and tie. His wife Kitty, exhausted from a sleepless night, had kicked her shoes off and yearned for bed. But top aides were troubled. They blasted Dukakis for failing to define himself. "Governor, you never gave the people of Iowa a chance to know who you are," an observer recalls saying. Then, in a harangue laced with expletives, they pleaded another point: "You've got to go negative on them...
...century the inhabitants of tiny St. Ignatius, Mont. (pop. 1,000), had a hardscrabble little hospital to tend their more serious wounds and ailments. Then five years ago, the 18-bed Mission Valley Hospital ran into trouble. Spiraling medical costs and difficulty attracting doctors were partly to blame. But the real crunch was that, with new limits on reimbursements, Medicare no longer paid what it cost to treat the hospital's mostly elderly patients...
...bed for the winter--they may as well get people apartments for that amount of money," Culhane said...