bedfast

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The enemy that made General Douglas MacArthur a bedfast hospital casualty last week is as common as it is mysterious.

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First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient bedfast.

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His mother had been bedfast with an incurable ailment for months and he wanted to marry highfalutin Mary Louise Smith, 18-year-old daughter of onetime big-league Ballplayer Jimmy Smith, now a well-to-do Pittsburgh nightclub owner.

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The scientists, who have been going aboard each morning since the test started on Jan. 19, took blood samples from the bedfast half of the crew.

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So there he was, bedfast for about three months; but, of course, he begun to enjoy his accident long before that—almost as soon as he come to, in fact.

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon