Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sell the claim he staked in The Run and moved his family into Enid. From the second-floor porch of the midtown office building where they lived, Markey was edified by a clear view into the high-fenced enclosures provided by Enid's saloons for patrons to sleep it off. "Gillespie Brothers was the best for sights. At Sunday-school time on Sunday morning you might see the forms of men who had been there all night, still as stiff as cordwood." Markey met the heavy financial demands of urban life, first by cleaning spittoons and later by delivering...
...officers at Atsugi were shepherded to a comfortable mess hall and given turtle soup, roast beef and egg sandwiches.* They had expected to sleep on the ground but were shown to comfortable beds with snowy linen sheets. Japanese guided the Americans to MacArthur's headquarters in the New Grand Hotel on Yokohama's picturesque waterfront-the one part of the city the bombs had not touched. Just off the lobby, with its pink plush and ornate carving, a bucktoothed, bespectacled Japanese girl helped a U.S. sergeant allot rooms to U.S. brass. The manager was in a managerial frenzy...
Three-Year Splurge. Greek-born Willie Helis, now 58, arrived in the U.S. 41 years ago with $22 in his jeans. He learned to sleep with a diamond-tipped oil drill locked around his neck, and eventually hit the jackpot. He now owns more oil wells than he has time to count, has spent up to $3,800 on a single evening's fling, smokes two dozen $1.50 cigars daily...
...Japs had five hours to sleep (on Army cots), and in mid-morning the conferences were resumed. At the end, Kawabe was handed 24 or 25 pages of detailed orders. By lunch time, 19 hours after the C-54 had dropped onto Nichols Field, the Japs were on their way back to Tokyo...
...outdone by the morticians. America's dignified Society of Automotive Engineers has noted the use of their sacred title by such prideful up-and-comers as the "rat, cockroach and bedbug eradicators," whose organization is known impressively as the American Society of Exterminating Engineers. Other engineers now include: sleep-engineer (bedding manufacturer), imagineer (idea-man), custodian-engineer (one who furnishes creative janitorial service), esthetic-engineer (an artist), pediatric-engineer (a corn-cutter), civilization-engineer (a scientist), odor-engineer (perfume manufacturer), and social-engineer (one who "appreciates that one important function of education is the release of the potential energies...