Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people were not asleep. They were not only awake, not only aware, but angry at Washington sleepers who sadly wagged their heads over the "sleep" of the people...
...visible effect on Oklahoma. Though he claimed to have built more churches "spiritually and physically" than any other man in the State, what he had to show for his pains was penury and insomnia. ("Your mother doesn't care," he would complain, "if I die for lack of sleep. There she lies night after night dead to the world while I am going crazy with sleeplessness...
Only a real humorist could be amused by giving a lecture, but that is the phenomenon that Mr. Brown represents. He is amused by himself when he forgets names and puts people to sleep as much as he is amused by the trepidations of the lady who is to introduce him and the belligerent attitude of husbands. He is amused by train rides and Gideon bibles, by hostesses who meet him at trains and by after-dinner bores. He is amused by cynics and by bellhops and by Mrs. Roosevelt. With a never-failing geniality he allows his own private...
...13th day the men caught a "tern-like bird that tasted like dried chicken." But the confinement and lack of sleep were beginning to tell. With so little food, peristalsis had stopped. To keep all hands busy Dixon tied shoes to the men's wrists and made them paddle...
...Floyd Stahl handles the baseball team, and works on the football team as well, Earl Brown and Al McCoy are both basketball and football experts, and Henry Lamar is proficient both on the gridiron and in the resined ring. In spite of contrary rumors Harvard coaches can go to sleep undisturbed by any spectres save those of Uncle Sam and the accelerated program...