Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navigator Addison Thompson had decided to catch up on his sleep. The weather was too bad for star shots, and he had never thought of a radio fix. He slept for about eight hours. When he woke, he found the second flight engineer curled up cozily under his navigation table and the Sky Queen past the point of no-return...
...them ended up by wangling a bed in the Northampton jail. That convinced them that what the college man needed was a guide to women's college towns, telling where to eat, sleep and dance...
...done by some men from the College and from Dartmouth who spent a night in a Northamption jail for want of a better place to sleep after their Smith girls had been safely tucked in. They decided it wouldn't happen to them again or to anyone else, for that matter...
...alley lives the Geek, an is-he-man-or-is-he-beast carnival exhibit that tears up and eats live chickens. He is able to stomach this job because he is in the last stages of dipsomania, and is paid a bottle a day and a place to sleep...
...matter of an evening's entertainment." Next to men, she liked baked hot dogs and red wine. When she felt real low, she gave herself "vitamin" shots, and she often felt low because "they all go for young girls and skinny widows under 35. Nobody wants to sleep with a middle-aged old widow as big as a ginhouse roof. I haven't got a chance in the world...