Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval officer he requested combat duty, got it as flag secretary to Admiral William Halsey, who called him "a great naval officer." He saw plenty of action, went without sleep for 70 hours evacuating U.S. prisoners from Japan after...
Whenever Orson Welles starts his fertile mind working on a picture, the result is going to be, to put it mildly, out of the ordinary. Welles wrote, produced, directed, and took the lead role in "The Lady from Shanghai," which has a more complex plot than did "The Big Sleep" a few years back, and which gets Welles into more unusual situations than Bugs Bunny ever dreamed...
...EVERYWHERE, busy with spring chores, were giving thanks for the mild winter. Even the blast of snow and freezing weather that had hit Britain in mid-February had been rather welcome. Said a toothless Suffolk fanner: "The crops were coming up too fast. The snow put 'em to sleep. Now, unless a May frost comes along to stab us in the back, there'll be a bumper." Sheep Raiser Ben Alderson of Kerry, Montgomeryshire, had a bumper already; one of his ewes had just produced five lambs, a circumstance considered remarkable enough to be recorded in the stately...
...Calgary Albertan Reporter Art Evans took over for the final ecstatic burble: "Obviously tired but wearing the thrill of her Indian adoption like a happy mantle, Shining Star quietly slipped away to her tepee, there to dream of cool waters, soft winds, and the Great Manitou who guards the sleep of all sweet maidens who believe...
Under Master Mason Hammond '25, professor of Greek and Latin and of History, the Deacons from a spirited unit, and probably, more than any other group of students, they are proud of their House. Its esprit de corps makes Kirkland much more than just a place to eat, sleep, and hang your...