Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dozes, she keeps one eye open for the main action. My maneuver for laying her in the crib is very involved, something I learned from a National Geographic special on the praying mantis: I do it in slow motion. When her tiny, beautiful head touches the mattress, her eyes fly open and tears well up in them. She cries, she keens, she wails and howls. She has no middle range; she is louder than anyone else whom I know personally. She cannot be ignored. And so I sling the spit rag over my shoulder and resume walking the floor...
Except for the island, all these have been sold--but money from these and other donations doesn't just pile up together under Harvard's mattress...
SAGITTARIUS: Look under your mattress. There may be hidden treasures there...
...performances and bizarre, gasoline-powered contraptions. When we pulled up to Burning Man for the first time several years ago, we were greeted by a fat guy riding a large, furry rabbit motor scooter. He sat behind the ears. Across the desert we could see a truck hauling a mattress behind it, stirring up a huge, blinding vortex of dust. Three passengers in gas masks were reclining on the mattress, waving insanely...
...other hand, Denver Broncos starting safety Steve Atwater swears by his magnetic mattress pad. "I don't know if it's a placebo effect," says Atwater, who has tried taking shark cartilage to little effect, "but it's working for me." Jim Colbert, a top winner on the Senior P.G.A. Tour, attributes his success to the dollar bill-size magnets taped to his ailing back. And Washington Redskins wide receiver Henry Ellard has been using magnets on his legs for years...