Word: beds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...above him a 200-foot granite face; he had nothing to stand on but a rock ledge two feet wide. The sun had set and a blizzard was tearing about him, and there was only one thing Dunn conld do. He rolled out his sleeping bag and went to bed...
...Jack's head lay asleep, she caught sight of someone else's hair as well . . . retreating beneath the silk sheets." Dumfounded, Edie scuttles off to Housemaid Kate. "I seen the hair of 'is 'ead," she screams; "the Captain." "In your young lady's bed?" cries Kate. "Large as life," says Edie. Both housemaids collapsed onto their beds, rocking, crowing and shrieking until they are drenched with tears of hilarity...
Night, sailing was no better. The Dutch are great ones for fishing instead of earning on honest living, and every evening they get out of bed, yawn, and set out for a night with the nets. We found they were very economical fishermen to boot. When a Dutch fisher man reaches his favorite fish hole, he generally shinnies up the mast and blows out all his riding lights to save kerosene. This means that at any moment the erstwhile yachtsman is prone to destroy the means of a fisherman's livelihood with a sharp blow below the waterline...
Most schools opened on schedule, and health authorities argued that children were safer in school than out because carefully regulated schedules would protect them from overexertion. Besides, it is easier to get them to bed earlier with the warning of "school tomorrow." But in the lower grades there were many empty seats. Said a Brooklyn principal: "Parents are dreadfully scared...
...University of California clinic, all medication failed. Her condition was diagnosed as atopic dermatitis-or inflammation of the skin due to some abnormal sensitivity. What sensitivity, the doctors did not know. Joyce Holdridge was put to bed for two weeks at Fort Miley Veterans' Hospital, and the rash vanished. Back with her husband, it returned. "By this time," she says, "we knew...