Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editors by a shortage of manpower and of the time necessary for publishing a magazine, is an occasion both for regret and for respect. Any new excursion into the field of journalism soon becomes a first love with its leaders, and the duty of laying the periodical down to sleep can be truly painful. But the staff of the "Guardian," realizing that publication can continue only at the expense of the quality of the magazine, have chosen to put aside the type-ruler and the copy-pencil until the more important task is finished...
...renominate Wendell Willkie, who, by free speech ("I say what I damn please"), has catapulted the complacent United Nations out of their deep, defensive sleep and started offensives throughout the world...
...early morning hours of Friday, Nov. 27, Marshal Petain was awakened in Vichy to receive a letter from Adolf Hitler. His eyes still bemused by sleep, the old man read the words that ended his last vain hope of building up a new French state on the terms of the armistice signed at Compiegne. Because of "treachery" on the part of high officers of the French armed forces, the Führer wrote, he had ordered the demobilization of the remaining units of Vichy's Army and Navy. The great naval base of Toulon, last remaining...
...Admiral. When the Japanese bombs and torpedoes shattered the peace and sleep of Pearl Harbor, Admiral King was on the Navy's second ocean, directing the Atlantic Fleet's undeclared war of 1941. In mid-December, when he was summoned to Washington to be COMINCH of all the fleets, "Betty" Stark was doing his limited best as OPNAV. The Utah and the Arizona gaped from their graves at Oahu, ships slightly more fortunate were being readied for removal and repair, and bombed planes still made ugly piles on the Army fields. The Japs were closing on Manila, hacking...
...convenient roosts-trees, chimneys or barns. But when the chill months come and insects disappear, torpor comes over them and with it a longing for their own cave, the same spot where they have spent previous winters. Bats sometimes fly 100 miles to find their old cave and sleep in it until spring...