Word: sleeping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sleep, To Dream ... In Los Angeles, Nicholas De Christopher, with $99 in his pocket, fell asleep on a park bench, dreamed that he was being robbed, awoke too late...
Djebel el Kreroua. The hill was Patton's most advanced position at one point on the Gafsa-Gabès road. U.S. troops who had fought without sleep for 48 hours seized it, then barely had time to scratch out shallow foxholes before 88-mm. cannon began blasting at them from German tanks in the pass below and from artillery in overlooking hills. The U.S. troops were armed only with rifles and machine guns, with which they rattled away at enemy infantry trying to follow the Axis tanks through the valley. Cut off by the German cannonading, the Americans...
...Enough beds and innerspring mattresses to sleep 8,000 people, enough chairs, davenports and love seats to seat perhaps...
Joel's I.Q. is so high that the Chicago Board of Education keeps it secret. His mother first noticed something wrong when she heard him lulling himself to sleep reciting the multiplication tables. He was four. When he was four and a half, he caught the grocer short-changing his mother. That amazed her so that she wrote a child psychologist for guidance. The advice was to leave the boy alone. His parents say they did. They do not explain how he found out how to solve cube roots. For every question Joel answers correctly on the program...
...Sampson's delightful anecdotla, let it here be noted that on the trip to West Point (a Journey on which Julian wanted every photographer from every Boston paper to see the club off--by the way, he's obsessed by pictures), he hustled the entire team off to sleep in cozy Pullman berths, only to discover the tickets called for coach reservations. And his adherence to the Chesterfield-carnation tradition, a regalla sported at every Crimson rink contest by manager and coach, is only too familiar to Harvard hockey enthusiasts. Julian was more than slightly perturbed when Coach Johnny Chase...