Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last couple of years he has begun reading himself to sleep for a half hour or so each night, but his reading is confined almost exclusively to the U.S. Civil War. "I think he knows every battle of the Civil War and everyone who fell in every battle," says Mrs. Connally...
...faint light of the moon the Americans watched the Japanese creep toward them from the edge of the airstrip. Sometimes Japs crawled to the very edge of the cavalrymen's foxholes before they were killed. One major told me he was going to sleep in his hammock that night and suggested that I do the same thing. During the night, however, troops near by heard a commotion and the major called out: 'Don't shoot, boys, it's Major - !' Nothing more was heard. The next morning they found the major dead, his head nearly severed...
...cashier-fortunately, none of my relatives ever hankered to be any of the three." Nearest Cullman comes to being a nuisance is in phoning theater people early in the morning. "Listen, Cullman!" Russel Crouse once screamed into the receiver, "I got into this show business because I like to sleep late...
...observes: "No stooges, writers, worries to worry about. . . . [Jack] Benny is crazy. Benny should quit. I wouldn't swap with him, Hope, Allen, for all the money in the world. The moment a show is over they start worrying about next week. They eat and sleep with radio every minute...
Conditioned Saints. Carrying on, Salter suggests that hypnosis is one kind of response to words that touch off associations. "What are words," says he, "but the bells of conditioned reflexes?" The words "heavy" and "sleep" are the bells that enable Salter to close some subjects' eyes ; he conditions patients to hypnotize themselves by thinking the same words. He believes the word-conditioning theory also accounts for hallucinations, ghosts and the visions of saints. He has found that artists and highly intelligent persons are the easiest to hypnotize, because they have deeper and clearer word-associations...