Word: bedfellows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a dozen at any one time. The rewards were low-about $5 to $25 per sketch for piecework-and the risks were high. One chill night, Harper's Artist Theodore R. Davis, sharing his threadbare blanket with a Union soldier, waked at dawn to find his bedfellow dead beside him. "It was plain.'' wrote Davis afterward, ''that but for the intervention of his head the bullet would have gone through my own." To oblige Major General George G. Meade, Harper's Special Artist Alfred R. Waud scaled a tree to draw...
...America, the only chief of government who was publicly committed to come so far was the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Trujillo, who is making a show of turning toward Russia out of fury at the U.S. But odds were that Trujillo's bitter enemy and presumptive "neutralist" bedfellow, Fidel Castro, would also be on hand...