Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...street from the presidential palace, when they heard the news of the assault on Gaitán. They expected trouble and, within 30 minutes, got it. The Army took over their hotel as a strong point to defend the palace, and Dozier spent his first beleaguered night trying to sleep while two soldiers banged away at snipers from his bedroom window...
After filing his story and getting his first night's sleep in four days at Balboa, Dozier returned with Bracker and Shellaby. Wrote...
With an estimated $20,000 beginning to roll in from Nature Boy, Eden is feeling quite a pull from the West. He still likes to sleep outdoors (he is married, expecting a child), but is now pestered by reporters who ask him about his song, his beard, and what yoga means. He is about to give up his bicycle for a car-something hard-seated like a jeep...
...whom Picasso sent that note (in 1936) lost no sleep over it. Jaime Sabartés, devoted as a friend, and fairly humble as a secretary to Picasso, knew that Pablo didn't really mean it, though he may have thought he did. Picasso was apt to do things like that in one of his blue periods...
...Awakened at 5:15 a.m. . . . tried to take another dip into oblivion . . . awakened at 7 a.m. . . . went to sleep again . . . Awakened at 8:15 a.m. [with] itching ... head, lots of white dry dandruff . . . must read about it in the Encyclopedia . . . Smoking too much makes me nervous . . . Arose at 9 o'clock ... I think freckles ... are due to some salt of iron [in] low state of oxidation ... A little dog . . . just came [in], face as dismal as a bust of Dante . . . dinner at 3 p.m. ... I eat too quick . . . Commenced reading . . . don't like Dickens-don't know...