Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiercely partisan Southern Democrat, Martha Truman had a tart opinion on almost everything. Her friends fondly called her "the old rebel," and shamelessly embroidered a tale of how she had said she would sleep on the floor rather than occupy the White House bed that Yankee Abraham Lincoln had slept...
...face the fact that resort hotels have been taken over by U.S. occupation forces and Japanese inns are impossibly crowded. "In view of these obstacles," the bureau advised, "I think you will be safe in saying that the Tokyo staff will spend its vacation catching up on sleep...
...plowed fields, barefooted, to save their shoes. They have had one meal of bread and water since they left Berlin. "We got nothing," said the eldest daughter. "The peasants told us we had nothing they wanted in trade." The youngest girl, twelve years old, falls immediately into a deep sleep, clutching a six-week-old puppy which they got because a farmer wanted to drown...
...faucet keeps a-dripping and I can't sleep...
...just another proof that the British, too, can make mediocre pictures. It is an affable, rattletrap murder mystery about a couple of doctors (Trevor Howard and Leo Genn), a few nurses (Sally Gray, Rosamond John, etc.) and an anesthetizing apparatus which, to everybody's dismay, induces the big sleep...