Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Infanterie de Forteresse, 140 steps down in the Maginot Line's Fort of Rotherberg in Lorraine. Like a sunken battleship, the fortress throbbed eight hours a day as Diesels pumped in air and light. At 10 o'clock the motors stopped. The lights went out. Then sleep in Chambrun's concrete cell battled with claustrophobia. The first night he had to climb up to the iron entrance and gasp for fresh air through the crack above the concrete sill. "Just pretend you are a monk living in the Middle Ages," counseled Bentz, his cellmate. After a month...
...crusade with such patent sincerity that even the most partisan hearer took away some belief in him-as a man, if not as a candidate. And those who got the gospel were slightly dippy, like fresh religious converts so full of doctrine that they need not eat, drink or sleep...
...dodge branches. It lives only in a few damp jungles or rain forests at altitudes of 5,000 ft. or more, nests in hollow trees perforated by woodpeckers. From the nests, which are hard to find, the young can be taken during the nesting season. Surprised in their sleep, adults can occasionally be caught by hand. Natives also captured live adults for von Hagen by stunning them in the open with slingshots. If confined after capture, the grown birds are likely to beat themselves to death, unless they are given an injection of sedatives, but they soon become very tame...
Walliser's show is distinguished from rivals by the fact that his inventions are all based, however remotely, on real discoveries. Walliser is now considering a sleep ray for Peter Quill, which will paralyze an enemy's hypothalamus, send him off into a gentle doze...
...forge an armaments industry from its steel mills, foundries, machine shops and technological resources, the U. S. started a business boom. Behind all the flag waving, the boom's most striking feature has been the way it has awakened the capital goods industries from their ten-year sleep. But this awakening has also generated new national income, caused a major revival in nonDefense, consumer industries as well. Item: department store sales for August were 11% above 1939. Item: residential building was 20% above 1939. Item: retailers in general, to reload their emptying shelves, have been in an almost panicky...