Word: bedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a hard day of campaigning in Wisconsin, Jimmy Carter traveled to upstate New York and settled into bed before midnight at the Tudor-style house of Lawyer Gerald Fincke and Wife Pat in Rochester. Carter tries to stay in private homes when campaigning, to save hotel bills and cultivate his grass-roots support. As usual, he opened his New Testament, which he is now reading in Spanish in order to brush up on the language. This night he read Chapter 8 of II Corinthians: "We aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight...
Next morning he arose at 6, and, typically, made his bed, carefully smoothing out the blankets as he was taught while a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy. Then, shaved, showered and dressed, he stepped into a waiting Plymouth sedan to begin yet another day of campaigning...
...Americus and drove to his home town of Plains, arriving at nearly 2 a.m. He had been going for almost 20 hours. Wife Rosalynn had returned to Plains only a few hours earlier, having completed a separate campaign swing of her own to Kentucky. As he fell into bed that night. Jimmy Carter might have been forgiven by God and man if he had left his Bible in his suitcase and gone immediately to sleep. But he opened it again to II Corinthians and read from Chapter 9: "He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows...
...trodden worm with a cobra's fangs. The less thankful roles of the subsidiary couple are less thankfully played. The giggly Anderman seems to have inhaled laughing gas rather than downed tumblers of brandy, and Kelton's Nick is docile enough to have made Martha's bed but never Martha...
Head Coach Jack Barnaby was bed-ridden with the flu, but David Fish, heir to the Racquet Czar's throne, was at the controls for the derailment of the Engineers and termed the whole affair, "a very untaxing match." The real season begins this weekend when the squad travels to Pennsylvania on Friday and Columbia on Saturday to face two talented Ivy League squads...