Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last time big (220-lb.) Pitcher Carl DeRose had started a game for the Kansas City Blues, he could hardly sleep at night after the game for the pain in his arm. The Blues, a Yankee farm team, considered 24-year-old DeRose one of their most promising players, so they sent him off to the Yankees' trainer. He was advised to lay off for three weeks. Last week, exactly three weeks to the day, DeRose started against Minneapolis. By the third inning, his right arm was throbbing badly...
Doubts of le Peré Noël. Gallic skepticism had not gone to sleep. Henri Clery, 48, who rents boats on the Seine at the St. Cloud bridge, scratched his unshaven chin. "It seems too good to be true," he said. "But does Mr. Marshall really speak for all Americans? You know, I stopped believing in le peré Noël a long time...
Although his parents were pious Vaishnavas (a Hindu sect which strictly abstains from meat eating), Gandhi was goaded a few years later into sampling goat meat to emulate the British. "Afterwards," he reported, "I passed a very bad night. . . . Every time I dropped off to sleep, it would seem as though a live goat were bleating inside me; and I would jump up full of remorse...
...times of stress "miracle men" have a habit of bobbing up with "messages" for a world in search of signs and wonders. Some swallow swords, some are buried alive, some sleep on tacks. Others-the more conservative kind-merely possess "supernatural powers...
...turns, dangerous intersections, rough spots where cautious driving would be necessary. At Chateau Laurier, where the President would be an honor guest at a state luncheon, they interviewed the waiters. At Governor General Alexander's Rideau Hall, they even insisted on inspecting the rooms where the Trumans would sleep...