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Word: beds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student returned to her room in Dunster House last year to find her bed in the shower and her furniture in the hall and repairmen had made a hole in the wall to find a leak. Another student returned to Quincy House to find several thousand dollars worth of camera equipment destroyed...

Author: By Jaleh Poorooshasb, | Title: Heating Policy Over Vacation Goes Smoothly | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...battalion kitchen. But when an antiquated military plane makes a forced landing in nearby Krasnoye, Chonkin is ordered there as a sentry. Before the first day ends, he has made himself at home in the village. He moves in with Nyura Belyashova, a postal clerk, shares her bed, cleans her house and tends her garden. He also moves the plane into the garden so as not to be derelict in his duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kievstone Cops | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...speaking world as The Nutcracker. Not even Walt Disney could top it. Right on stage a Christmas tree grows magically to an enormous height. A nutcracker doll springs to life, defends its young mistress, Marie, against an army of huge mice, then turns into a young prince. A white bed, moving under its own power, transports Marie through a wintry forest and into the Land of Sweets. There she and the prince are entertained by the Sugar Plum Fairy before they fly off in a reindeer-drawn coach to eternal happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Tis the Nutcracker Season | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

Truckle to nurse him through his last days, the money-mad husband delivers his wife to the supposedly harmless bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Delirium Risibilitatis | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

First, the sleep clinicians probe deeply into a patient's sleep habits−for example, by questioning his bed partner. They also video-tape his slumber behavior in special sleeping rooms, where patients spend the night hooked up to a polygraph, a lie-detector-like machine that monitors sleep-related physiological functions (breathing, muscle twitching, rapid eye movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Snoring Sickness | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

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