Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first two hours are inevitably great for putting the men to sleep. Taking less time, the Army could as easily have given the men reading material to study and talk over before the class, then have given them a short talk touching on some main points, and followed this with a discussion period later...
Alias Dummkopf. In Hannover, West Germany, while on watch for Robbery Suspect Gerhard Kuschel, police arrested one Roy Oerl for trying to sleep in someone else's parked car, decided to let him go if he would sign a statement that he had not intended to steal the car, whisked him away when he dashed off the signature: "Gerhard Kuschel...
...Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Seven short stories about the maimed, the infantile, the impotent, who fall like "twisted apples" from the tree of life...
...intellectuals, burbled one Red newspaper, "braved wind and snow, traveled at night, lived in thatched huts built with their own hands. Sometimes it was so cold that the comrades could not sleep. The comrades would make a fire and sing around it." So happy were these "heroes of the high mountains" that they forgot their "individualism, bureaucratism, and subjectivism and acquired labor conception, mass conception, and collective conception. How the cadres love labor and have changed their mental outlook...
Living on Euphoria. Fidel Castro himself is egotistic, impulsive, immature, disorganized. A spellbinding romantic, he can talk spontaneously for as much as five hours without strain. He hates desks-behind which he may have to sit to run Cuba. He sleeps irregularly or forgets to sleep, living on euphoria. He has always been late for everything, whether leading a combat patrol or speaking last week to the Havana Rotary Club, where a blue-ribbon audience waited 4¾ hours for his arrival. Wildly, he blasted U.S. arms aid to Batista, but he paid a friendly call...