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Word: sleep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebuttal, kicked off by Republican Olsson, began with, "Our worthy opponents have produced a symphony of Arabic numerals, which may have had a sleep-producing effect...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Political Groups Debate Reduction Of Tax on Incomes Under $5,000 | 12/2/1958 | See Source »

...sleep; don't go to sleep. Once you go to sleep, you're lost. Move your legs. Come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Death of the Bradley | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Come on, come on. Don't go to sleep! If you go to sleep, you know what happens! Stay awake! You can't give up! Not now! Not now! It won't be long! Just hang on, man, keep awake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Death of the Bradley | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...China sleep," warned Napoleon nearly a century and a half ago. "When she awakens the world will be sorry." Eying the path along which Mao proposes to lead an awakened China, most of the world, if not yet sorry, is already apprehensive. In Warsaw recently a Communist editor nervously reflected that "the entire Polish nation represents little more than a slight miscalculation in Chinese population statistics for one year." In the U.S. some thoughtful men argue that within a generation the U.S. will be helping bolster Soviet defenses against Communist China. Writing in London's New Statesman, British Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The Year of the Leap | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...least of Conway Twitty's talents, Seat soon discovered, was his ability to compose new songs without straining a tonsil. "Down in Fort Lauderdale," Conway recalls, "I went to sleep one night and dreamed of a song. I jumped out of bed and jotted down the words. Then I hummed the tune." Result: a song he called Not for Me, which he has yet to record. "I was at the Flamingo Lounge in Hamilton, Ont. last February," Conway says, "and I went up to the office during intermission and wrote It's Only Make Believe in seven minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIN PAN ALLEY: A Handle for Harold | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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