Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kocsis was not quite sure why he acted the way he did. His father had been grabbed by the Russians after the war and forced to work in arctic coal mines until his health broke down. "Some nights," Ferenc recalled, "he would wake us all by shouting in his sleep. 'No! No! Don't beat me!' and 'Set me free!' But my father never said anything in public. He stayed out of politics, and he bore his hatred in silence. That's the worst kind of hate, you know." Husky Ferenc had shouldered his way through the Communist bureaucracy just...
...little Episcopal Church of St. Matthew's, in the little exurbanite community of Wilton, Conn., was holding its Christmas pageant. The Three Kings, swathed in sheets and parents' hand-me-down finery, came with their gifts to the manger. "Sleep in Heavenly Peace," sang the congregation. "Slee-eep in Heavenly Peace...
...Soul Sleep." William Miller never subscribed to this face-saving concept, but many onetime Millerites from many Protestant groups drew together around...
They acquired other special doctrines. Notable among them is that of "soul sleep"-the idea, held at one time or another by such Biblical authorities as Martin Luther, William Tyndale and John Wycliffe, that at death all men remain "unconscious" in the grave, only to rise for judgment on Resurrection Day. (Orthodox Protestants and Catholics today read Paul as meaning that the afterlife begins immediately at death.) Seventh-day Adventists also hold that after the Last Judgment impenitent sinners, and Satan with them, will be annihilated. But orthodox Christianity continues to interpret Christ's words, "These shall go away...
...acutely from "my old disease, my thyroid disturbance." Transferred to Budapest's Conti Prison, he was held in solitary confinement for four years, the cells on each side of him empty to prevent wall-tapping communication. His cell was "small and crumbling. There was a straw mat to sleep on, a table, a stool, a small bucket for one's needs and another for water." While in solitary, "I received no mail, read no newspapers and no books except my breviary and my Bible . . . Each day I said my rosary six times. Much of the time I prayed...