While a single, bed-width cushion creates an orderly line, a pair of bolsters one for each half of the bed makes more sense for bedmates with opposing propping needs.

WSJ: Bolster Cushions Win Best Supporting Rolls

At bedtime, Mary Ann would draw an imaginary line down the middle of the bed, and admonish me not to cross it.

CNN: CIA wife tells life story in 'My Spy'

To be laid in bed, brace put on to keep my spine in line, it was really hard to pick myself up again.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

With the minutes ticking down and the hosts increasingly desperate to put the game to bed, substitute Peter Crouch saw a header cleared off the line and then his shot saved after a fine solo run, while former Bolton player Eidur Gudjohnsen slid wide with the goal gaping in injury time.

BBC: Tottenham 1-0 Bolton

Beans will be turned into chocolate on Tcho's elaborate production line, which is being used as a test-bed for remote video-monitoring of industrial processes by researchers at Fuji Xerox in Palo Alto.

ECONOMIST: A start-up innovates in an unexpected field

When a Downing Street advisor points out that loneliness is probably more dangerous to our health in retirement than smoking, there are plenty who immediately assume that the advice is part of some dastardly statist plot to get pensioners out of their one-bed flats to sweat their final years away on a factory production line - see below for one example.

BBC: Friends are a matter of life and death

Five years down the line you are going to get bones breaking or to put it simply you roll over in bed and break a hip.

BBC: Acid 'cuts prostate cancer patients' fractures'

She puts water in the tea kettle, gets the treat, pets the dog, and decides to throw the dog bed covers into the wash, and realizes the wet load in the washer has to be hung on the line (yes, she even hung her laundry in the sun).

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