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...help at Stalingrad, "don't promise them any reserves. Don't give them a single battalion from the Moscow front." On a Kremlin visit shortly before the war's end, Tito heard Stalin call up Marshal Malinovsky whose army had been halted. "You're asleep there, asleep!" Stalin shouted. "You say you haven't tank divisions. My grandma would know how to fight with tanks. It's time you moved. Do you understand...
...have read Furry's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee and before Boston reporters. Each time, when questioned about communists, their activities and political purposes, Furry has acted like a Rip Van Winkle, who has been mentally asleep for the past decade and a half. Asked about his activities with a front group in 1948, Furry kept talking about Loyalist Spain. To the Congressmen, he insisted that American propaganda was distorting Soviet actions and he accused this government of persecuting communists for their political beliefs...
Reveille. In Memphis, Mrs. Raphe Dumas shook her sound-asleep husband awake to tell him that a wild-running automobile had just knocked their house off its foundations...
...that this would be possible . . . Thereafter, for the next couple of weeks, he would wander in whenever he pleased (sometimes as early as 6 a.m. after eating breakfast at one of the all-night restaurants in the Square), and listen for hours at a time. Once, when he fell asleep, we put up a sign: "Don't disturb. Mr. Wilder is sleeping to Mozart...
Year after year, as headmasters and college deans see the process repeated they ask themselves: Why do so many prep-school graduates find the first two years of college so dull? Why do so many able students seem to fall asleep...