Word: beds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clerked for an insurance firm, learned cricket beside a rubbish dump and set himself a course of reading that would have floored an Oxford don. After listening to a light opera one evening, he discovered that his mind "retained music as the kidneys secrete water." (Now, after reading in bed at night, Cardus switches off the lamp, selects some favorite composition from his head and conducts an imaginary concert before falling asleep...
...Bed of Nails. In the hall, weary newsmen despaired when Claude, the beer and sandwich man, went home muttering "No one pays me to stay after 12." Even an OEEC official said: "The West can never agree without Russia. When Russia is present we have no trouble agreeing to stand together, but when Russia is away," he shrugged his shoulders, "look at this...
...Cripps walked down the stairs, an OEEC man cracked: "There he goes to his nice bed of nails...
Source of Wonder. As the ground rose, a railroad track had to be moved and the bed of a nearby stream had to be deepened. The postmaster kept copious records of every move the mountain made. Geologists decided that it was caused by a "laccolith," a mass of molten material that had forced its way toward the surface, raising local rock strata instead of breaking through them...
...rambling, five-room Georgia farmhouse at 5 o'clock one morning last week, a fat (205 lb.), genial Southerner rolled reluctantly out of bed, downed a cup of coffee laced with bourbon, pulled on a shapeless seersucker suit, and started reading aloud to warm up his vocal cords. Shortly after, Channing Cope, 55, farm editor of the Atlanta Constitution (circ. 187,000) and one of the South's best-known and most influential newspapermen, ambled to an easy chair on his screened front porch...