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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Work and Prayer. Next day the monks started to convert the barn into the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Ghost. For the traditional Trappist common dormitory they constructed cells of wallboard (4½ by 7 feet), threw their hard straw mattresses on wooden planks. They sleep in their monastic habits (white and black for priests, brown for lay brothers), taking off only their shoes. They go to bed at 7 p.m. An alarm clock wakes them at 2 a.m., when the austere Trappist day begins with two hours of prayers. At 4 Holy Mass is offered...
...officer found a group of natives, led by a grizzled chief. The old man read the message, pointed to a teen-age pair nearby, explained: "It's from that fellow to the girl. It says: 'I've built a new hut. Will you come and sleep with...
...Tender Comrade makes an arduous pretense of facing that tragic fact. But most of the film is a low-gear report about the hard times and good times of War Wives Rogers, Patricia Collinge, Kim Hunter, Ruth Hussey and Mady Christians. They work in an airplane plant, eat and sleep in a house which they run "like a democracy...
Plowing through icy Arctic waters, the Liberty ship Chief Washakie was 45 miles off Unalaska Island on the blustery night of last Dec. 10. At 10:22 her master was startled out of a sound sleep by a sound "like cannon fire"; the Washakie had split her sides open. Held together by her double bottom, the ship limped into Makushin Bay for temporary repairs, then headed for Dutch Harbor 48 miles away...
Tired, Lackadaisical, Lustless? Officers, noting the popularity of these plugs, put them to work kidding soldiers' deficiencies-such as sleep: "Do you wake up in the morning with bags under your eyes, tired, lustless; do you do K.P. with no fervor or dig a lackadaisical latrine? Then try our product spelled...