Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual means of transportation on such tours is the station wagon of one of the debators. While two men sleep on a mattress in back, two sit in front, switching off and driving constantly. Despite the graduation of the station wagon, the tours will continue next year in the Council's own car, the recent gift of Frederick F. Greenman '14, chairman of the Council's Alumni Advisory Committee and leader of a campaign to improve post-World War II debating at the College...
After the social whirl of springtime Washington, the Goularts were in a mood for informal relaxation when they arrived at Texas' King Ranch later in the week. At the ranch there was time for a long sleep, late breakfast and a midmorning inspection trip. Goulart, a rancher himself, looked long and hard at the ranch's famed herd of Santa Gertrudis cattle (3⅜ Brahman and 5⅝ Shorthorn bred for good beef and hardiness), but made no decision...
...Norma Jeane was careful, especially not to talk back. If she did, she got whaled with a razor strop and told that a homeless girl should be more grateful to folks who had put a roof above her head. One night, when the child went to sleep in her cot, she had a strangely exhilarating and frightening dream: "I dreamed that I was standing up in church without any clothes on, and all the people there were lying at my feet on the floor of the church, and I walked naked, with a sense of freedom, over their prostrate forms...
With a delicacy rare in hard-fought elections, the ballyhoo men in the wagons that roved through Rangoon's streets all one night last week apologized humbly for disturbing the voters' sleep. But their loudspeakers kept on blaring just the same, extolling hour after hour the virtues of Premier U Nu's Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. Next day, with the help of virtually every available automobile in town, the party workers were as busy as well-trained Tammany heelers getting out the vote. Carloads of voters were hauled to the polls after a brief...
...squad of Hitler youth, who have done men's work in the battles before Berlin, are marched in to be decorated. Hitler pats their cheeks, pins medals on them and gives each one an éclair. At night he gets an injection to put him to sleep...