Word: beds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine miles along Perini's poorly-built parkway, then over the well known overpass into Wellesley to the finish line in front of the Alumnae Hall. There is one difficult hill on Route 9 which extends about half a mile. Such spectators as can drag themselves out of bed and out to Wellesley by 10:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning should stand on the hill to the left of the Quad to get the best view of the racers, and their attached bicycles...
...instances to show that the embittered Asiatic does not lose her sense of humor, And, needless to say, she does not lose her sex impulse. Miss Anderson's Medea rages not only at the wrong done to her children and her pride but also at the coldness of her bed...
...once more to enjoy trees and flowers, there was little time to lose. In his fortress prison on the Ile de Yeu, the man who once dragged that he would live to be no was rapidly failing. By special dispensation he was no longer forced to make his bed or sweep his room, and he had given up his two daily 30-minute strolls in the prison yard. Though the prison director allowed him a radio, Petain seldom turned it on. But he still clung to his firm resolve to let posterity judge him on his record. The last paragraph...
Troops in armored cars occupied railways, telephone exchanges and border stations. They arrested El Kuwatly in Damascus' military hospital, routed Premier Khalid el-Azm out of bed and carried him off in his blue silk pajamas. By morning most of the cabinet was locked up in Damascus' Citadel, and Syrians got their first look at their new ruler...
Trafalgar Trust. Many an Englishman decided then & there that Nelson would never put to sea again. But the Lords of the Admiralty knew better. One-eyed, one-armed, rheumatic and bubbling with enthusiasm, Nelson left bed and boudoir and pursued the French fleet with his old, extraordinary combination of "unexampled patience" and fanatical excitement. "Nelson confides that every man will do his duty" was his original cocky message to his fleet, but he "cordially approved" when an officer suggested that "England expects . . ." would be more to the point...