Word: bedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Procrustes was a mythic giant with a notorious bed. If his guests were too short, he stretched them to fit. If they were too tall, he chopped off the excess. In Hearts and Minds, the giant is impersonated by the film makers. The bed is the film itself...
LAST NIGHT SOMETIME, halfway around the world, American civilians were getting out of bed in Thailand and in South Vietnam. Some of them, mostly retired Air Force officers or Air Force Reservists, have orders not to discuss their work. They work for five different private airlines operating in Southeast Asia, and they work for fairly low wages. For the last month, these men have been getting up every morning and boarding DC-8 cargo transport lets bound for Phnom Penh. The planes flying south from Thailand carry nearly 600 tons of ammunition a day to loyalist forces in Cambodian capital...
...that managed the girl's apartment building, who unlocked the door. Inside, the two men found Amelia (whom friends and family called Amy) dead, bludgeoned about the head and stabbed in the neck. Clad in a blood-soaked T shirt and white panties and partly covered with a bed sheet, the girl was lying in a pool of blood on the floor. The wall near by was spattered with blood; her two small dogs were cowering under the bed...
When Eben saw the girl's body, he screamed, "Who did this? Who's doing something to my sister?" When an ambulance arrived to carry the body away, Eben jumped on the bed and yelled, "An animal did this to my sister!" After questioning Eben for several hours, homicide detectives arrested him and charged him with murdering...
Pepys kicked his cook and sold a black servant into slavery to finance his already ample stores of chocolate and sherry. Once, while in bed, he blacked an eye of the wife he married when she was 15. More regularly, he pulled her nose and terrorized her about kitchen expenses. Against his enemies, or his imagined enemies, he was capable, in Ollard's words, of "scurrility verging at times on the hysterical." Yet Ollard feels compelled to insist that here, dear reader, stands a "kindhearted...