Word: sheet
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...have lived alone for years, since I left my parents' house. I wake up at a quarter to one, with a headache. I take an aspirin, a simple and innocent act and suddenly I see them-lying in an embrace, the sheet carelessly over them, X up on one elbow and joking with her and her joking back, nothing is serious or sacred between them, they are in love, in love, in love; I am six miles away suddenly nauseated, living alone...
...football team while police quietly watched. This fall, they put out an underground paper called the Mad Hatter. According to a local attorney, the school committee reacted to its four-letter words "as if they had come on the first copy of Das Kapital." The members banned the sheet from the school, calling it "filth" and "insanity...
...offered a 20% discount on collision coverage for any car that could withstand a 5 m.p.h. crash without front-or rear-end damage. So far there have been no takers. Criticizing Detroit's 1971 models, Allstate Chairman Judson Branch complains: "Look at the bumpers! Still tucked against the sheet metal: a perfect battering ram and shock transmitter. Another model year down the drain as far as sturdier cars...
...before the coffin had been transferred to an armored car, which rammed through the crowd at 25 m.p.h. Nasser's widow Tahia fainted at one point. One Egyptian newscaster who was describing the proceedings passed out, and at least three others broke down and wept. Wrapped in a white sheet, Nasser's body was removed from the coffin and lowered into its crypt. The face was carefully turned toward Mecca, 800 miles away across the Red Sea. Nasser's soul, as far as devout Moslems were concerned, was already with God. He had succumbed on the anniversary of Mohammed...
...capital, called Amman New Camp. At the same camp the guerrillas are believed to be holding $650,000 in U.S. bills that Swissair last week admitted had been aboard its skyjacked plane. When the guerrillas found out about the money by reading the craft's loading sheet, they marched the plane's captain into the desert, held guns to his temples and forced him to tell them where...