Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things began to come back. He was Ernest Steele-Ernest K. Steele. He had been fishing, then driving down Franklin Canyon Road on his way home. He guessed he had gone to sleep; he had a vague memory of terror, of feeling his car plunge through a fence and sail out into the gulley. He twisted on the hard ground until his back was raw and his wounded hand throbbed with pain. Then he thought of his wife, Mae, at home in Richmond, and he lay still and wept...
...North African possessions, and the most "assimilated" to French culture, there is an independence movement too. Fiery, 54-year-old Messali Hadj, Algerian Arab nationalist, toured the restless Kabylie district in March, repeated in village after village: "For 116 years we have been under the French yoke. Still we sleep on the ground, we wear only a simple gandourah, we walk barefoot, and most of us go three or four days without eating a piece of cake...
...first floor of the greystone four-story building are a cafeteria, a recreation room and parlors where the girls can entertain Sunday afternoons and evenings and two or three nights a week. They eat the same food as the nuns-with chicken and ice cream on Sunday-and sleep, two to six to a room, on the upper floors...
Philadelphia's Dr. Edward L. Bortz, president-elect of the A.M.A., had a prescription ready for the whole nation: take it easy, get enough sleep and recreation, develop a sense of humor. That way, he thought, the insatiable spirit can be kept from tearing the fragile flesh to pieces. Chicago Heart Specialist Louis N. Katz, who thinks even card games are too strenuous, went further: "Never try competition-not even with your own golf...
...over last month: the editorship of the Paris Communist daily Ce Soir. Says Lover Aurélien's aged friend and adviser: "My boy, I've only one piece of advice to give you and it's advice you must take to heart. The women you sleep with don't matter-what's damnable is the women you don't sleep with...