Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kuala Lumpur. In the Pusan perimeter, the bugs got out of hand when Army medics had to lay down their DDT guns and pick up Mis. Since this realization, U.S. forces have had relatively little trouble (only 30 cases, two deaths on Okinawa this year). They spray mosquito lairs, sleep under nets; in a tough combat situation they would slaughter all the nesting birds they could find...
Faced with a pack of more than 100 newsmen, Jim Hagerty, 46, reversed the Administration's longtime policy of reticence about the President's personal life. To give reporters every last intimate detail of Ike's waking and sleeping hours, Hagerty in the past month has had to get by with three hours' sleep many nights, even missed his son's wedding two weeks ago. To report accurately and authoritatively on Ike's condition, Jim Hagerty briefed himself on heart disease. He collaborated with the doctors on four-a-day bulletins that were models...
...Tutankhamen's Egypt and Plato's Greece. Nero had a passion for it. Its unnerving drones and belligerent skirls have been known to stir men's blood, their brains and, according to Shakespeare, their bladders.* It has led men into battle and lulled them to sleep. Last week it was the star attraction, when the Regimental Band, Massed Pipers, Drummers and Dancers of Her Majesty's Scots Guards made their first visit to Manhattan on a nine-week North American tour...
Died. Anthony Ross, 49, actor of the screen (The Country Girl), TV and stage (the original Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie); of a heart attack in his sleep, after completing a performance of his featured role, the boozy professor in the current Broadway hit Bus Stop; in Manhattan...
...honor to sign in the correct time whenever she returns after 10 p.m. She is allowed considerably more one o'clocks, too, than her Wellesley counterpart. If she happens not to like girls, even though living in a dormitory, she can return there only to sleep...