Word: insomnia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Insomnia Worse." Bennett was constantly in need of anodynes. He suffered torments from neuralgia, headaches, liver trouble, stomachache, boils, and a "speech chaos, not stammer, not stutter, a paralysis which . . . made him throw back his head epileptically and bite the air until release came." His most horrendous affliction was insomnia, a subject which seems to occupy more space in his diaries and letters than even his obsession with word productivity. Day after day, he noted "3¼ hours last night," "half dead with fatigue and nerve strain," "great state of exhaustion" or "no creative energy left. Insomnia worse...
...Rhee is ailing. One afternoon last week, while posing for a photographer, he suddenly broke out into a sweat, clutched his side and swayed slightly. Aides helped him to his bedroom, called an army surgeon. The diagnosis: gastritis. A graver impairment of his energy is his chronic insomnia, which often allows him only two or three hours sleep at night...
...wizard slumps back in a sweat and pulls himself together to collect a fee of $16 (but only, he insists, from those who can afford it). With identical treatments, D'Angelo claims to be able to cure "all psychic or nervous disorders," such as paralysis, phobias, migraine, insomnia and loss of sight, hearing or speech. Since most such cases are hysterical in origin, he can often help patients who have enough faith in his powers...
Never in really good health since 1936, Stalin had a bad heart attack at Potsdam, Budu says. In addition, he suffers from asthma and insomnia. He was in a state of collapse after the Yalta Conference, where, says Budu again, the "Churchill-Stalin vodka-drinking duel had been bad for him." "I'm younger than Churchill," he said, "and I don't admit his superiority even in the matter of how much alcohol we can take." From about that time, Budu implies, the Soviet Union has been run pretty much by the Molotov-Malenkov axis, even though Stalin...
...Mean This?" In his bungalow beside the Niger River he read a lot, thought a lot, tried to write a Conrad-like novel. But his old wound was acting up, and he had asthma, insomnia and malaria. His wife and family begged him to leave the service. He still had his ?300 a year, his wife had ?600, and his father-in-law promised: "I'll see you through." Gary decided to settle down in Oxford and be a writer...