Word: insomnia
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...still lose this war . . . the only time I ever made such a statement." The plan for the Third Army's subsequent breakthrough, Patton claims, was in his head complete as he awoke one morning: "Whether these tactical thoughts of mine are the result of inspiration or insomnia, I have never been able to determine, but nearly every tactical idea I have had has come into my head full-born, much after the manner of Minerva from the head of Jupiter...
Testimonial. In Islington. Australia, grateful Frances Devereux refused to prosecute James Ford for bashing her in the head with an ax, explained to reporters that the blow had cured her insomnia and improved her appetite...
...Insomnia...
...called a friend of ours to say that lying awake in the night he had suddenly solved a bad one which might easily have handicapped an undergraduate for the rest of his life. It was quite characteristic of him to take his worries home for self-inflicted insomnia...
...peeking through documents in SS headquarters. One day Himmler showed him a medical case history covering "26 typed sheets of paper" and asked Kersten if he would be willing to take the patient. Dr. Kersten says he refused, when he saw that the man's troubles included vertigo, insomnia, laryngeal polyps, latent tuberculosis, progressive paralysis, impotence and syphilis. The patient's name: Adolf Hitler...