Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China's long-fighting, long-suffering people, faced with a United Nations policy of concentrating on the European front, a policy which has caused Lin Yutang to call China "The Forgotton Front," has not fallen back into its thousand-year sleep. So says Shouchang Pu. 1G, a Chinese citizen who cites as evidence the Chinese Industrial Cooperative, an organized movement of the civilian population, which has played a large part in keeping Japan's original victim in the war on the Allied side...
...shape of the world to come. On one matter he was convinced. "The millions of returning soldiers and sailors will not be satisfied or fooled by the old claptrap concerning 'rugged individualism,' 'American opportunity' or 'American equality.' . . . They will not be lulled to sleep by commonplaces about the limitations and difficulties of distribution, nor by promises of 'prosperity just around the corner.' They will demand jobs here and now. I do not believe that an economy dominated by the philosophy of 'free enterprise' will be able to meet that demand...
After that Sergei went to sleep. He woke to find Fyodor had done in another Nazi: "The throat had been cut in a straight line above the Adam's apple." Sergei and Fyodor went out and saw a Nazi troop train; the Germans tried to jump out, "but their bodies, bored with steel-tipped bullets . . . fluttered to the ground like insects...
Before William Wrigley Jr. died in his sleep on the morning of Jan. 26, 1932, his long grey-brown mountain in the sea off Southern California (purchase price $3,000,000, improvements $20,000,000) had become a profitable combination of poor man's Nassau and rich man's Coney Island. Last week, when the U.S. Maritime Service opened its second largest training station for merchant seamen on Catalina's crescent-shored Avalon bay, only the shape of the island remained as William Wrigley left...
...Washington is responsible for the confusion that the robbed college inmates of so much sleep, there is still no evidence that the final plans will be scrambled too. Effective organization of the nation's teaching resources is a problem as immense as any yet faced. The tangle of interest and personality conflicts has only increased the task whose complexity has already resulted in so much reshuffling and postponement. That none of the half-baked schemes have been released may have resulted in college-crippling confusion, but it remains evidence of official determination that the final structure shall utilize...