Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frozen Feet. In the summer, the sun beat down on the school's tin roof, the pine boards sweated resin, and the smaller pupils dropped off to sleep. In winter "after the white frosts had fallen and blanketed the frozen land . . . many times I saw the red spots . . . from the bleeding little bare feet of those who came to school regardless of shoes." Jesse had to cure pretty 14-year-old Vaida Conway of spitting tobacco juice on the schoolhouse walls, and furtive Alvin Purdy of scribbling obscenities in the privy...
...Mahwah is noted for beautiful trees-elms and tulips. And speaking of trees, one of our former residents cut quite a niche for himself writing about trees. This young man was Joyce Kilmer . . . Mahwah is one of the few places where George Washington DID NOT sleep. As a matter of fact, he used to pass through here at a good rate of speed . . . And finally Mahwah has all modern improvements . . . So we ask you what do Azusa and Cucamonga have that we don't have...
Nowadays, U.S. Trappists sleep on boards covered with straw mattresses, follow an iron waking schedule of hard labor, utter silence, arduous prayer and slim rations that begins at 2 a.m. and ends...
Barsov missed his wife and child: "In five hours of sleep had a lot of delirium, saw my son (he was very glad to see me back) in my dreams, wept a lot ... I don't know what to do." He drank heavily, worried about "pulsations" in his heart...
...sounded strange coming from Schroeder, a high-strung will-to-winner who frequently ate 4 a.m. breakfasts because he couldn't sleep the night before a big match. At 28, he decided he had conquered all the tennis worlds worth conquering. Before he won the British title at Wimbledon two months ago, he thought of turning pro; later he changed his mind, decided to stick to his amateur standing and his year-round job with a California refrigerator company-and relaxed...