Word: dozing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Flora Williams, a onetime slave. Mrs. Williams had never learned to read, could memorize nothing, had to ad lib her interview with Commentator Gabriel Heatter. Even under the strain of broadcasting she could not keep awake, repeatedly had to be nudged out of a doze to answer questions...
...view, like a steamroller, blocks away. At once the Vagabond is aware of the menace, but it seems silly to be worried at so remote a doom. So he continues to flirt with frivolity, chasing his gaudy butterflies, granting full audience to every thought which whimpers: "Rest sleep, dream, doze--you are secure, you must not recover too quickly from the rigors of the holidays, you have ten days yet--rest, all will be well...
...fatigue," the release reads, "that causes a driver to doze for a moment, or, through inattention, fail to note a vehicle that has come to a stop just ahead in the same laue of travel. But it is speed, often increasing under these circumstances, that results in the fatal crash...
They Won't Forget (Warner Bros.). On Confederate Memorial Day (April 26) the little town of Flodden, Ga., takes a half holiday. In the town park, a handful of tottering Civil War veterans doze and chatter while they wait to march in the parade. At the Buxton Business College classes are dismissed early and the school's principal is surprised when one of the girls, pretty Mary Clay (Lana Turner) comes back to the classroom to get a vanity case she has forgotten. At the town cemetery, the show-going old Governor pays sincere tribute to the dead...
...them, all the imaginable cur-mixtures. In summer he would come into Pawhuska-Osage capital- choose a sunny spot at a principal intersection and curl up on the sidewalk to sleep, a heavy blanket keeping off flies and scorching sunrays. His dogs would curl up about him to doze or to snarl and snap at passersby. Once, the city dog-catcher captured his pets and shot them. John disappeared for a few weeks, then returned to town with more dogs than ever...