Word: bedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same place. On the last page in Auchincloss's novel, the latest in a seemingly inexhaustible stream of books about New York society, the final sentence reads "He was going to have as much fun with his crazy new law firm as Annabel [his wife] had even had in bed with Tom Barnes...
...base hospital and they kept the whores there two weeks, shooting them full of penicillin, and cleaned them up. Then we took them back to the company and built four rooms for them right next to the Club, with their names over the door like movie stars; just a bed and a bucket for douches and they got five dollars a shot--the Army got nothing. That lieutenant thought of it--he was all right...
...never been a believer in second guessing (yeah, sure kid!), but when I struggled out of bed on Sunday morning after an evening of serious boozing to discover that my worst fears had come true, that the swimming team had lost to Princeton in the Easterns, I was tempted to do some brutal fourth, fifth, and even sixth guessing...
...campaign entered the final stretch, Wilson found his touch. At a mass meeting in Birmingham, he took on Heath's "Reds under the bed" campaign theme in classic Wilson style. "In three short weeks," he said, "the Conservatives have achieved what Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Brezhnev never were able to do-make the British Communist Party look important." As for the Pay Board's belated discovery that the miners were not being paid 3% above the average industrial wage but 8% below, Wilson drew cheers with the Churchillian parody that "never in the history of arithmetic...
...means) of men wanted for prison terms of seven years and more. Mannucci uses most of his guile and gall to manufacture evidence. But his atavistic instincts are intact when he blackjacks a captured Mafioso senseless, or thrusts a gun under the nose of a loan shark caught in bed...