Word: sleeping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...writing fame, while Eileen makes a few half-hearted attempts to break into Gotham theatrical circles. Their efforts meet every grotesque obstacle known to the skillful playwright. Mashers wander through their flat at all times of the day and night, blasts from a new subway running underneath shatter their sleep, drunks peer at them through a street-level window, and a flabby pro football players from upstairs irons their clothes and sleeps in the kitchen. Six amorous Portuguese naval cadets finally cap the climax with a conga party that assumes riot proportions and nets Eileen a night in Jail...
...Guadalcanal U.S. air power has been a shoestring magnificence. U.S. planes operate from a runway built by the Japs. The planes are maintained by mechanics who work blacked out under ponchos with flashlights. The pilots go out on two or three missions a day. They sleep out a chunk of each night in foxholes. They never complain. And they always win. So far U.S. pilots have shot down more than 400 Jap planes. In August 1940, when the Battle of Britain was at its height, the R.A.F. shot down 1,091 German planes-but they were meeting hundreds of planes...
...Silence. The gods gradually merge in the one God. But until that realization is achieved - and it may take a million reincarnations - a Hindu devotee cannot dissociate human factors from his worship. Therefore Hindu deities must be bathed, clothed, decked with ornaments. They must be fed and put to sleep, propitiated with hymns, songs and prayers. There are appropriate rites connected with all these functions...
When the destroyermen hit Tennessee, they had had three months of experience fighting tanks, began to bewitch and bewilder their opponents, almost swept them into the Cumberland time after time. They never seemed to sleep during a maneuver. They figured out where the tanks were likely to come (and usually they guessed right), then lay in wait to enfilade them, fleeing during the confusion, firing again from another angle. They reconnoitered all night, all day, maintained constant. radio communication with all units...
...land, sea and air battles from Narvik to Crete-and so he knew what he was talking about when he cabled TIME that the Red soldiers are "actually better disciplined and more deadly serious about this war than the troops of any other nation-think, breathe, eat and sleep it-do not even enjoy a stay away from it. Their very camels seem to lean forward into the wind with a special urgency...