Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Awash up to her Plimsoll line in the Mediterranean, Brigitte Bardot, 27, was floating around lazily but spectacularly in a one-piece bikini and a leopard-spotted water mattress. Click! went a distant telescopic-lens camera, and France's sex kitten arched her back ever so cautiously. Her latest beau, Cinemactor Sami Frey, who has been a summer guest at her Saint-Tropez villa, recently blasted off another shutterbug with buckshot as he snapped away at BB from the rushes along the shore...
Matunuck, R.I., Theater-by-the-Sea: Robert Rounseville in a new, musical version of that old mattress frame, The Fourposter...
...hidden in compartments of imported cars, in ice bags, cans of bean sprouts, jewelry cases, the brassieres of airline hostesses. Only last week, narcotics cops in Manhattan arrested a woman pusher who was sitting on a park bench, rocking her baby in a carriage. Under the baby's mattress was a supply of heroin that the pusher was selling to customers who paused to chuck the baby under the chin...
Along Addis Ababa's "Mattress Street," brothels used to be marked with red crosses until the International Red Cross complained that too many Ethiopians were wandering into first-aid stations looking for a treat instead of a treatment...
...hospital nurse worth her starch takes high pride in beds made with cotton sheets stretched tightly over a rubberized or plastic mattress cover, which is a tidy and sanitary practice-and one that can cause agonizing pain or even death from bedsores. Patients confined to bed in one position for long periods are almost certain to get blisters over the lower spine. Patients who develop ulcers, as sometimes happens among aged victims of broken hips...