Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world got the shock it had been waiting for. But to the U.S. the shock was cushioned by the dead of night; the news came in the hours when the soberest of men are drunken with sleep. Perhaps never was such big news heard by so few. When the nation woke up, the great fact was hours...
...nations as such, any alternative but this: a complete victory or complete destruction. When once this sharp dilemma has entered men's minds, its baneful influence is a stimulant toward prolonging the war. . . . Those who are under the domination of such feelings go on, as in a hypnotic sleep, through abysses of unspeakable sacrifice and constrain others to a war of extermination that drains their life blood. . . . This fear should give way to a well-founded expectation of honorable solutions; solutions that are not ephemeral or carry the germs of fresh turmoil and dangers to peace, but are true...
Alexander has not lost much sleep during the current fighting. He studies and confers in the morning, visits the battle zones in the afternoon, dines at eight, goes to bed at ten unless his dinner guests are very special...
Swedes saw frail Professor Sakimura, unshaven and unkempt, wandering through Stockholm's parks, sometimes slumped in dejection on a bench, or stretched in fitful sleep behind a hedge. Last week the struggle with his conscience ended. Swedes saw four Jap officials hustling haggard Professor Sakimura to a waiting Berlin plane...
Everybody's Afraid. Many flyers found their sleep disturbed by "battle dreams," in which they relived grueling episodes of air combat. First therapy: the flight surgeon would encourage the sufferer to "talk" out his dreams and his experiences, and would explain that everyone taking off on a combat mission, from the seamiest veteran to the quivering first-timer, was in some degree afraid. If that did not work, he was grounded and sent to a rest home where sports, occupational therapy, indoor games, etc., were designed to take his mind off himself...