Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could anyone in the world sleep more easily because of Stalin's bedtime message? Jan Christian Smuts is reputed a sound sleeper, chiefly because he gets to bed early, has often slept on camp cots or iron beds. But last week South Africa's weather-beaten, 77-year-old Prime Minister spoke of troubled nights. To women members of his United Party gathered in Pretoria he said: "Have you ever had the experience of waking at 2 o'clock in the morning in a sweat of not knowing how to solve the problems of tomorrow...
...pretty sick man. For one thing, he had become obsessed by the fear of death. Sometimes he imagined that he was losing his mind. He complained of a continuous ringing in his left ear, and his nose felt numb. He had no appetite, couldn't sleep, and occasionally felt as if he were about to faint...
...late report last night revealed that four undergraduates were preparing to sleep out of doors in the Gore Hall quadrangle because of the unseasonable heat. They were: Hane H. Estin '49, Stephen F. Davis '49, Richard H. Cummings '48, and Dwight Lawrence '51, all of Winthrop House...
...Time. What was the tune? Jimmy Byrnes thought he could sing it in his sleep. The music was classical, written in the days of Peter the Great. Russians simply want more-more & more...
...uses his contemporary conventions to produce a heightened effect, and only seldom does he fail. Generally the movement flows upward and inward toward the center, where often a great figure of good or evil protects or destroys. Sometimes the composition is unconventional, as in "Lucia Carrying Dante in his Sleep," where the strange, vivid seen, the striking composition, and the ennobled character of the figures make one realize that William Blake was a great, great...