Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chop holes in the ice to scoop water out of the gutters. They line up daily in long queues for their dwindling food rations; each carries off an allotment of bread that barely covers the palm of his hand. In their heatless homes and factories they work, eat and sleep in greatcoats, gloves and hats...
...Moatsie stayed in Moscow, but for two weeks "cried [herself] to sleep every night and couldn't keep any food down." Moatsie kept going. Russian women enviously fingered her American corset. "A naughty gleam" came to the eye of a fellow correspondent when Moatsie was shown wounded Russian soldiers lying naked in healing mineral baths, and she cracked: "I am prepared to testify that the Germans aren't hitting below the belt...
...birth and death are easy hours, like sleep...
...want to get out. I was musclebound, you might say, for several seconds." After that trip, he was sent to the Long Island rest home. After two weeks he was still afraid of crowds, and a short jaunt by train and ferry almost unnerved him. But after a good sleep, without nightmares-"I feel very good," he said. Soon he would be back...
...Nazis and a German nurse. Because they cannot find out which Nazi is the officer they have been ordered to bring back alive, the Russians must hold their rebellious, scheming prisoners rather than shoot them down. Since one Russian gets wounded and the other becomes wobbly from lack of sleep, this takes doing-the kind of doing, in fact, that made William S. Hart's fortune...