Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleep till Memorial Hall chimes ring and make your 9 o'clock class. You can eat the best food in the College as immense inter-house eating lines attest. You can swim in the only House pool. And you can test your attitude toward parietal rules against the challenge of a dozen unguarded gates. In short, almost everything prospective House residents want, Adams claims to have...
...left Benes' country home for the 60-mile drive back to Prague, Masaryk offered his bodyguard a cigarette. "I can't smoke on duty," said the guard. "You can smoke with me," said Masaryk. He took a puff or two, stamped it out, and slumped in sleep. He awoke as his car reached Prague's outskirts, surprised to learn he had slept an hour...
...Moscow woman was aroused from her sleep one night by two strangers, kept four months in Lyubyanka Prison, sent to a labor camp In Khazakstan by cattle car, kept there for four years, brought back to Moscow and released without hearing, trial or explanation. An American was with her when she met an old friend in a Moscow street. He described the scene which followed: "Plainly, the friend thought she had encountered a ghost. There was a brief glow of happiness on the faces of the two women, then they fell into a humdrum conversation about the weather...
Tears of Appreciation. Through all those troubled years, Handel worked furiously. He could turn out operas, cantatas and oratorios in a matter of days. Refusing sleep and food, weeping copious tears over the beauties of his own inspiration, he composed the Messiah in 24 days...
World Communism, which seemed to be encroaching almost everywhere last week, suffered a minor setback in Paris. The dour plotters in the Kremlin lost no sleep over it, but Maurice Thorez, French Communist leader, undeniably lost face. For a few days, in fact, his pudgy face was literally disfigured...