Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sept. 29, 1943, the Italians went aboard her to sign their surrender to General Dwight Eisenhower. The "Nellie's" captain, A. H. Maxwell-Hyslop, likes to tell a yarn about an engagement off Normandy. "I had gone to bed one night after two or three nights without sleep," he relates. "There was a frightful crash and I ran on deck, thinking of a robot bomb. But a landing craft, filled with newspaper reporters and, I think, steered by one of them, had smashed into us. They dented...
Long before Novelist AldousHuxley conceived of a Brave New World where schoolkids could learn their lessons through "hypnopaedia" (sleep-teaching), a less talented novelist wrote a book with a similar idea. It never broke into print: New York publishers thought it too badly written and too fantastic. In the novel, an ambitious man made himself ruler of the world by inventing a "cerebrograph" (mind-writer), which taught people while they slept. Author Max Sherover abandoned the novel, but not the idea...
...Recesses. When they awakened, all the guinea pigs listened to the list. Those who had heard it in their sleep learned it by heart in practically no time. Those who had never heard it took much longer. Elliott concluded that sleep-teaching is similar to reteaching something a person has temporarily forgotten...
Early ambulation ("an ugly phrase for a beautiful idea") means that patients are out of bed as soon as possible, perhaps one or two days after the operation. Result: less pneumonia, better healing of muscles, fewer "sick-man complexes"; patients can relieve bowels and bladder normally, eat better, sleep better, feel better...
...whom he has never seen, at a lonely place called Skully's Landing. It is a journey into mysteries and wonders. From the town of Noon City he is taken in a slow wagon, by an ancient Negro named Jesus Fever, down a swampland road into night and sleep. He opens his eyes on a vivid morning scene...