Word: pillowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeding them by bottle until they were old enough to go on grass. Already, Joe's hearty appetite for cold cash was apparent: he even made a tidy profit out of his habit of sucking his thumb. For months, both his mother and grandmother put dimes under his pillow every time he went to sleep without his thumb in his mouth. Finally grandmother Carver said: "Joe, this has gone far enough. We'll just have to stop giving you money." Replied Joe: "If you do, I'll keep right on sucking my thumb...
...York State Fair in Syracuse, Michigan's Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams smiled into news cameras after Iroquois Indians made him a blood brother, crowned him with a plumed headdress and handed him a small pillow picturing him on his way from Lansing, Mich, to the White House...
From Clement Attlee's chambermaids to Eleanor Roosevelt's valets at the White House, the Westerners who cast eyes upon the belongings of Vyacheslav Molotov never ceased to be astonished by what they saw. One British chambermaid noted that beneath his pillow the Russian kept a pistol. Mrs. Roosevelt's servants reported that Molotov had brought a chunk of black bread, a roll of sausage, and a pistol. "Mr. Molotov evidently thought he might have to defend himself, and also that he might be hungry," Mrs. Roosevelt confided. "I liked him very much...
...happiness a wing ding . . . is. Excerpts: "he kissed me through a glass closed window /I ... tried to remember as the glass shattered / that this was freedom instead of death"; "the heart is a circle / shaped like a cross . . . / a mold of lava / a tender thing / a shriek in the pillow / a butterfly's wing"; "... a wine of palest color . . . / It tasted bitter as an herb used perhaps for poison / And yet I drank / believing that when I reached the bottom / it might be sweet...
...last week that the U.S. formally entered the space age. By week's end, in millions of U.S. homes, the bright-eyed youngster with a space helmet in the closet and a space comic under his pillow was being listened to with new interest. Man seemed to be much closer to Whitman's eerie concept of other globes springing out noiseless from...