Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suddenly Vag's head cleared; the room became silent and motionless; the chair maintained a dignified silence. Vag reviewed the events of the day with delicious relish. It had started out as an ordinary day, nothing strange, nothing unusual. Vag had got up, gone to class, gone to sleep, gone home, gone back to bed. He forgot just when it was that he had got the news, or how, but he could never forget what that news was. Four B's! He rolled the words over and over on his tongue, four B's, four B's, four...
...before the enraged Senate Agriculture Committee: no law, he said, stopped him from unloading Government stocks, at Government prices, privately, for the war needs of other Government departments. He could have his surplus wheat made into bread to feed the Army & Navy, his cotton into sheets and shirts to sleep and clothe them, his corn into alcohol for their shells. When the Senators were still skeptical (the price bill prohibits "sale or disposition" of Government-held stocks except as provided in other limiting acts), he said he "understood" that the question had already been referred to Attorney General Francis Biddle...
...miss breakfast this morning, better set your watch ahead an hour or you'll be breaking a federal law. Cambridge joined the rest of the country last night in losing an hour's sleep to save electricity for national defense...
...When we arrived here, we were given good beds to sleep in and are well fed. . . . I am sending this message to my wife and friends. So long, Joe. I am alive and well and I am as happy as I can be, without you" (Major Paul A. Putnam, Marines...
...such intrepidity Young Ames makes his firm a million dollars. His salary is raised from $75 to $150 a year and he continues to sleep in the garret. He does not really mind because he knows that some day he is going to own a share in the firm and marry old Mr. Chevalier's niece. Before he succeeds, readers have been given a lively picture of U.S. business and municipal mores at their most ruggedly individualistic-against a backdrop of clipper ships, teeming wharves, swells, belles, fire fighting, and the Five Points gang wars...