Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better to die, and sleep...
Rabbi Herzog is not sightseeing in the U.S. Averaging about four hours' sleep a night, he is visiting 20 cities in 25 days, making two or three speeches each day, to raise money through United Jewish Appeal for the state of Israel. To Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews, whom he sees in nearly equal numbers, he says the same thing: it is the responsibility of U.S. Jews to give Israel material aid, in return for which they will get spiritual food. "In Israel," he says, "we have the responsibility of sustaining the spiritual lives of Jews all over...
...become second nature. Men of today, says Ogilvie, "are so constantly keyed up to fight the world that is trying to tread them down that they are in a state of continual and futile preparedness." Their nervous systems, "tuned for combat in the day and rehearsing combat during sleep," get out of whack. So do their glands. The result is such "stress diseases" as ulcers, high blood pressure, overactive thyroids...
...electric utilities, was refused a divorce though he pleaded that he and his wife had not slept in the same bed for five years, although they used the same bedroom. Snapped Judge F. D. Letts: "If I were going to divorce people because husbands and wives did not sleep in the same bed, I would have to divorce half the people in town...
That night impressionable Erica went home to her flat and fell into a troubled sleep. At midnight, she awoke to hear her pet cat screaming. Standing in her bathroom, she swore next morning, was a tall figure wearing the polterjacket. As Erica cried out in terror, the figure turned slowly to reveal the hideous face of an old crone. "I stared it away," reported Erica bravely. "It came up and then faded away like a television image...