Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missions in Korea, was sent home, volunteered to go back; Airman Steve E. Kiba Jr., 22, Akron, Ohio, one of eleven children of a Hungarian immigrant; Airman Harry M. Benjamin Jr., 22, of Worthington, Minn., who joined the Air Force because "I'll always have a place to sleep and plenty to eat"; Airman John W. Thompson III, 23, former Orange, Va. meatcutter; and Airman Daniel C. Schmidt, 22, of Portland, Ore., who wrote home from a Chinese prison asking whether his baby was a boy or a girl (it's a boy, now 20 months...
...tournament's second day. In the West Palm Beach hotel room where he had been taking a nap in the iron lung, he was found dead. The respirator was working, but after so many years of pumping against it, Fred Snite's heart had failed in his sleep. Thus ended perhaps the most famed fight an American has ever made to stay alive and to enjoy life against terrible odds...
Thankful for the fortunate placing of Armistice Day in the middle of November Hours, members of the 14 Plympton St. institution plan to take advantage of the holiday by stopping the presses for a day, and repairing to their rooms to sleep. Presses roll again late Thursday in time to print for Friday...
...psychologist with the hope of the priest. Reinforcing this contrast is the subordinate theme of the heroine's two maiden aunts. Both Catholics, they have attempted to escape thoughts of death by closing all rooms in which their relatives have died. Presumably, Aunt Teresa's final decision to sleep in the living room where her niece has committed suicide represents Greene's idea of coming to terms with life, based however on the hope of immortality...
...easy to see why the College encourages freshmen to develop good class-going habits from the very beginning. Students not used to the come-or-not attitude of large lectures might choose an extra hour of sleep too often. To check the attendance of those who have already passed through the Yard's gates, however, seems unnecessary. The University admits this by its practices in predominantly upperclass courses where no attendance record is kept...