Word: dozes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...croaky with fatigue. Shoes came off, blistered feet padded doggedly on the hot "pavement. After the first all-night march exhaustion threatened to break the line. Robertson detailed relays to keep the demonstration going. Those off duty squatted on the low stone coping where indulgent police allowed them to doze...
...weeks of the year the capital of Navarra is a sleepy little Spanish city where half-naked children play in the narrow streets and café waiters doze under the arcades of the broad, quiet Plaza de la Constitucíon. But in the second week of July, Pamplona becomes bull-mad, its streets and plaza are full of snuffing, rushing bulls. Hotels and rooming houses overflow with visitors from Madrid, Bilbao, San Sebastian, with tourists from St. Jean-de-Luz, Biarritz and Paris. Peasants from miles around sleep in wagons, in the fields, or do not sleep...
...hours later two other orderlies took charge of Howard Edwards. Up & down the hospital corridors they marched him, down & up stairs, in & out of rooms, all night long. Then they put him in a wheel chair. Howard Edwards sighed with relief, began to doze. The wheel chair performed a series of jolts, jerks, starts and stops, almost spilling Howard Edwards out. "I'm sick!" cried Howard Edwards. "If I die, I die." The orderlies, unmoved, made him walk again...
...Moscow horse races, where Mr. Shaw remarked: "I suppose there will be only one horse in the race, since there is no competition in a Socialist State," then lapsed into a doze, while Lady Astor fanned flies from his long white whiskers...
...Fortnight ago the heat wave forced him to abandon his rubber-from-goldenrod experiments (TIME, Dec. 16, 1929) and devote his energies to keeping cool. One hot day last week an automobile was ordered to take him driving. Waiting for it, the 84-year-old inventor suddenly seemed to doze off. He had collapsed. Sons Theodore, Thomas Alva Jr., Charles and Mr. Edison's daughter & son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. John Eyre Sloan, bustled about excitedly.* Doctors arrived from Morristown, N. J. and Riverdale, N. Y. in a jiffy. Dr. Hubert Shattuck Howe, who has attended Mr. Edison...