Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month. One-third of these soldiers are on fronts outside of India. As fighters they have given a good account of themselves. The bottleneck of Indian defense is not at the enlistment office, nor in the debates among parties: it is in the equipment. The picture of an India sleep-walking while her house burns is wholly false...
...South Atlantic ferry pilots, a poker-playing, cocksure crowd, came from U.S. airlines, the Army Air Corps, from dogfights over Spain and China. Mostly poor, civilian pilots make up to $1,000 monthly for what they call easy work. Like all good pilots, they love their planes-in Brazil sleep in jerry-built airport shacks to guard against sabotage. But the planes get wrecked in Africa anyway; one-third of the first 18 ferry-delivered ships were damaged within a few days after delivery...
...good music of this kind on the radio. You can hear Teddy Wilson's band for short spells Friday evening on the Duffy's Tavern program, but except for an occasional late broadcast by some good orchestra, there's hardly anything interesting. If you can't drop off to sleep before two o'clock, however, there is something to be heard almost every night. Within the past two weeks, for instance, I have, through adroit manipulation of the dials, found Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Jay McShaun, not to mention some people called the Six Korn Kobblers...
...didn't tingle any more. Vag called the nurse's attention to this, but she merely replied, "Oh, that means that there is so little blood in your hand that your nerves don't function as they should. It's just the same as when your foot goes to sleep." "Oh," said Vag, and began to wonder if his hand might suddenly fall off. Just then, however, the nurse removed the needle, placed a bandage over the wound, and displayed the pintful of blood. Vag smiled proudly...
...nation's capital trying to solve the "Irish question." Nugent gets into Hepburn's mansion (i.e, on stage) by taking her drunken cousin home from a wedding. He stays for the night, and you learn all that past history when the two principles, who can't sleep, meet downstairs at an early morning hour. Nugent says, "Tell me about yourself," so he does. Then Hepburn says, "Tell me about yourself," so he does. So they decide that, since neither of them can ever love again, they might as well get married. So they do. All this takes lots and lots...