Word: coverlets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aquino was furious. She herded a score of local reporters into her bedroom and lifted the quilted coverlet of her bed to reveal a carpet-to-mattress wooden base. "It is impossible for me to hide under my bed," said the President. Perhaps hoping to give Beltran a sleepless night or two, she filed a libel suit against him. Besieged by leftist and rightist rebels as well as by a rumormongering press, Aquino last week explicitly raised the possibility of declaring martial law if needed "for the greater good of the country...
Most of all, Mao is gone. It is as if the city had been sponged of him and his "personality cult." The giant 40-foot-high portrait still hangs above the vermilion Tiananmen. But he now rests silent under a scarlet coverlet in the colonnaded mausoleum that dominates the great square...
...visit the pagoda-like structure on Tian'anmen Square that contains the earthly remains of Mao Tse-tung. Inside the air-conditioned mausoleum they divided into two columns and filed past the crystal case in which the embalmed body of the Great Helmsman reposes under a coverlet of red satin...
...great-great-grandmother die? (An Indian shot her in the back.) Did General Custer carry life insurance into the battle of Little Big Horn? (Yes, a $5,000 policy with New York Life.) What covered the circular bed in Hugh Hefner's private DC-9? (A coverlet made of Tasmanian opossum...