Word: beds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proved himself a brilliant actor, a most capable interpreter of drama with award-winning performances, and a talented singer whose voice holds an always identifiable quality of uniqueness." Sinatra accepted on behalf of "all those fine, decent people out there all over America who get out of bed every morning to do their share and more to reflect honor on their parents' country by contributing to this country...
...rolled on wheels, pulled by a string." Ehrlichman dwells too much on describing the furnishings of the capital's most notable drawing rooms, apparently in search of credentials as a serious novelist. Yet he knows Washington intimately enough to lure the reader along, even into that "double bed" above the Attorney General's office, which had been "the historic scene of demanding if unofficial activities of Smythe's predecessors, their high-ranking brothers and sundry surrogates." Yes, the rumored past meshes readily with the fictional future as Ehrlichman's President Hugh Frankling faces the danger...
...there anything exclusively Soviet about the phenomenon of a leader who tries to govern-and negotiate-despite the encroachments of a fatal illness. During the Paris Peace Conference in April 1919, Woodrow Wilson succumbed to severe fever and gastrointestinal illness. He tried to conduct diplomatic business from bed, but issued irrational and contradictory orders and thought the French servants waiting on him were spies. The episode may well have presaged the massive stroke six months later that left him physically and, to a large extent, politically disabled. For the rest of his presidency-and indeed his life-Wilson...
...getting ready for bed. He takes off his shoes, then his socks...
They are feetlike, ordinary. They do not look interesting, but they look tired, and it is time to wedge them down between the sheets to the bed's own foot, where they will wiggle a bit and then fall dormant. The man lifts his feet into bed, but as he does, he feels the tingle of a half-formed thought. Oddly, it is about umbrellas. Something about umbrellas getting mixed up in restaurants. It is not the dazzling sort of thought that stings the thinker into wakefulness, and the man does not follow it to its conclusion, if there were...