Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Sinatra's left eardrum kept him out of the Army. He made a sleeper-jump from a Boston date to one with the Army's doctors in Newark, learned that the drum was punctured, learned that he ought to get more sleep, learned that he was now 4-F, moved on to a two-week stand in Pittsburgh...
...survey showed that 91% of British women wear corsets or abdominal belts-or at least would like to. Wartime "utility" garments made of low-priority materials are a painful failure. One result: a "shocking" number of women prefer to use their coupons for outer clothing, wear no underclothes and sleep raw. Some individual comments on the wartime garments...
When his cable was written Sherrod had just gotten back to his ship after three full days under constant fire during which he had only three hours sleep...
...spent an hour each day cleaning rifles, sharpening bayonets, then another hour studying aerial photographs and contour maps of Betio, the little bird-shaped island that was the main fortification of Tarawa atoll. There was nothing else to do except see movies, read dog-eared magazines, play cards and sleep, which Marines can do at any time in any position on almost any given surface...
...Bainter), a lieutenant (Margaret Sullavan) who, though fever-ridden, refuses to quit, a veteran volunteer (Marsha Hunt), and a rather luscious, well-intentioned lot of newcomers whose chief qualifications for the job are their good intentions and a dabbler's acquaintance with first aid. Short of medicine, food, sleep and experience, they do what they can when the Japanese bomb their hospital, strafe their open wards...