Word: motel
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Perhaps neither liberals nor conservatives will win, but the religious fundamentalists will. In this case, prepare for the '80s to be labeled the Decade of Satan. After all, Satan did force Jim Bakker into that motel room, and Jimmy Swaggert into that car. Satan made the Supreme Court rule against school prayer and for the right to flag-burn. And Satan did lure Don Johnson into a singing career...
Ralph David Abernathy was Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest adviser from the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott that sparked the civil rights movement to the Memphis motel where King was slain. He cradled the dying King in his arms and succeeded him as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Now Abernathy, 63, who was forced out as SCLC's president in 1977, has spilled the most intimate secrets to which his close association made him privy in his autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down...
...published by Harper & Row this month, confirms long-circulated reports of King's philandering. According to Abernathy, on the night before the murder of King on April 4, 1968, he consorted with one woman in a private Memphis home, with a second -- a woman legislator from Kentucky -- in his motel, and then got into an early-morning fight with yet a third woman who had been looking for him during the night. King "knocked her across the bed," Abernathy writes...
...bedroom until about 3:45 a.m., when she and King put an ice pack on his neck to wake him. Said she: "If there was any sex going down in my bedroom, it was by Abernathy himself." The former Kentucky lawmaker, Georgia Powers of Louisville, was at the Lorraine Motel that night but declined to comment...
...House, but also due to his status as a trendy spokesman. O'Neill has appeared in ads for American Express and Miller Lite beer, among others. In current TV commercials, he can be seen rising from an open suitcase on the bed of a Quality Inns International motel...