Word: insomnia
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Merlyn S. Pitzele (rhymes with ritzily), labor editor of Business Week, has insomnia. To while away the sleepless hours one night last winter, he wondered about the one headline that U.S. newspaper editors would most like to print. In the morning, he wrote to 69 newspapers from New York to Los Angeles...
...satisfied with that take? . . . But you didn't smile at me very much. Are you sure you aren't mad at me?" Or she would telephone Sidney's wife to ask fretfully if the boss had come home in a good mood. Betty cries easily, suffers insomnia, confesses at times that her success has not brought her happiness. Once, with the candor that makes her pressagents tremble, she-blurted to an interviewer: "You know what I think I've done? I think I've loused up my life...
...past few months, Cripps has suffered from insomnia. He has been keenly aware of public censure of his decision to devalue the pound. Friends say he is considering a year of spiritual retreat...
...high Yngi Pass, the hearts of the horses began to pound dangerously. Vincoe Paxton helped slit the beasts' nostrils so that bleeding would keep their arteries from bursting. She swatted maggots from the festering wounds torn by saddle ropes on the animals' sides. Nausea, dizziness, frostbite and insomnia meanwhile began to affect the travelers themselves. "It made us feel like idiots," said Vincoe. In 18,600-foot Karakoram Pass, the sun burned their faces, and their tea froze before they could drink...
...months ago, she had worked herself to a frazzle, complicated by insomnia and jitters for which she had long been trying to doctor herself. After she had a series of temperamental blowups on the set of Annie Get Your Gun, M-G-M suspended her and tackled the expensive job of starting all over again with a new star, Betty Hutton. Judy apologized for her behavior and then entered a Boston hospital for a rest cure. Among other things, she needed to put on some weight...