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...dawn trickled in through the clerestory windows of the House, dozens of M.P.s were asleep at their posts, but Manny Shinwell was still mounted on the ramparts, hurling mud. "Representatives of the so-called gentlemanly party, who have lambasted members on this side . . . are now squealing because they are getting some of it back," he gloated. "It is impossible to insult some of them. If someone spat in their faces, they would think it was rain...
...thing, Pfizer men say, little pigs are sound sleepers. When one is really asleep, it can be rolled around or bounced on the floor without waking up. It will even sleep through meal periods and die of malnutrition. About the only thing that will wake a piglet is the deep, rumbling grunt that the mother sow gives when she "lets down" her milk. When they hear it, the more alert pigs wake up and scuttle squealing to the teat line. As they suckle, they squeal with joy, and their racket wakes the other pigs...
...husband is asleep in the bedroom, and you have put me in such a mood I wonder if the fool realizes what he's missing...
Some of the sentries of the republic were asleep after the war-and some are still drowsy. The finding that they were not traitors does not answer the charge that they were bad sentries...
...Your coverage of late happenings in dynamite-laden trouble spots (i.e., South Africa, Islam, etc.) is most commendable, and one sure sign that everybody with "pull" is not asleep-although the vast majority of our leaders and publications seem to be held fast in the arms of Morpheus...