Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were given a dinner by the warden for digging no tunnels during the previous year. ¶1953: a convict-made bomb killed Prison Manager Albert Gruber. A two-day riot and $500,000 fire killed one prisoner, destroyed five buildings. One-quarter of the prisoners (400 men) held a "sleep strike" after using barbiturates to go on a mass bender...
...admit six or seven thousand students, even if it requires thousand--man lectures and the climination of tutorial. Such changes, however, might constitute a radical transformation in the education the College now offers. They would open the door to increasing mediocrity in instruction and physical facilities: an after-dinner sleep for Harvard College...
...foreigner, led to believe that the Germans "live, eat and sleep reunification," is somewhat surprised to see that the average West German today is living a hyperactive life of his own, eating generous helpings of Wurst and Sauerkraut, and sleeping very well. The "German economic miracle" has been somewhat over-emphasized, but as one walks down Dusseldorf's Konigstrasse or Munich's Kaufingerstrasse it is obvious that the German is again living very well. And it is not difficult to understand that after five years of war and ten of rebuilding, he is very loath to give up his present...
...From far I come, And pass from place to place In a sleep wandering pace To seek my home...
...Getter. In Rio de Janeiro, an ad appeared in the classified-section of the English-language daily, the Brazil Herald: "Girl wants part-time job where she can sleep, please call...