Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Future. What next for Aranha? Certainly not rest, or sleep (he thinks more than five hours a night is barbarous). Politics? Probably. From 1930, when he plotted Revolutionist Getulio Vargas into power, until 1944, when he nimbly jumped from the dictatorial train before it crashed, Aranha has turned his brain and famous smile to practically every important task that Brazilian public life offers. Only the presidency escaped him. For that, in 1951, his feverish admirers now thump...
...rope, cut out cattle and shoot a pistol with either hand. As a boy, he used to rise before dawn, and with brother Dick and their three sisters ride 25 miles to a roundup. After dark they would ride back. Sometimes Sarah, the youngest girl, would go to sleep and fall off her horse. The others would put her back in the saddle, then wake her up to race the last mile home...
...order known as the Cistercians of the Strict Observance is one of the most austere in the Roman Catholic Church. On ordinary days rising hour is 2 a.m. (it is earlier on Sundays and feast days). Seven hours are devoted to sleep, about seven to the Divine Office and Mass, one hour to meals, four hours to study and private prayers, usually five hours to manual labor. Except when sick, Trappists* eat no meat, fish, eggs; unless they are giving necessary directions for labor, monks without special assignment may not speak, except to their superior...
...went away seemingly satisfied with the justifications offered by their chairman, David A. Embury, 61, a Cornell alumnus ('08) and a member of Acacia. Said he: "There is nothing arbitrary or capricious or unnatural about . . . restrictions based on race, creed or color. . . . [Fraternity] members live together, eat together, sleep together, date together and share each other's joys and sorrows. What then could be more natural [than to] seek men with the same . . . backgrounds as their...
That night, Executive Vice President Carter locked himself in his room at home with a bundle of Crenshaw blueprints. For the next three days he worked over them, with only snatches of sleep. By the time he had finished he had redesigned the store, and had decided to hire Manhattan's Raymond Loewy Associates to carry out his ideas...