Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual reasons for that decision -the ties of blood that never seem important until you've lived a long time away from home. Then, I don't think I've been really warm since I left South Carolina in 1941; in Normandy I used to sleep in a puddle and dream of the long, bright days when good Southerners sit in the shade and watch the heat waves rise off the parched red earth and feel the sweat slowly run over their ribs. I have missed the innate courtesy and good manners of Southerners. I have...
Steamboats and Gold. Much of the country along the Missouri is still almost as wild as it was then. While Stanley Vestal was writing The Missouri near Sioux City, Iowa, the wild geese, held up in their spring flight by a six-inch snow, made such a racket that sleep was impossible. Through its loveliest country the Missouri is rich in historic sites that almost nobody ever sees because nobody ever uses the river for travel any more -old campgrounds, old trading posts and forts, Indian battlefields, old steamboat landings that date from the days when river boats pushed...
...Cathedral. Here we had our first experience with the narrow German beds so much detested by Queen Victoria. They are just wide enough for one. . . . As they separate man and wife I am opposed to them. A man who has a wife he does not delight to sleep with is badly married. . . . [Sleeping together] tends to make good husbands, to strengthen the influence of the wife, and to improve her position in the family. It cannot be otherwise, because it tends to increased friendship and mutuality of life, and is one of the reasons why American husbands are better than...
...Transport Command station near London this week, Private Ramon Rodriguez slept all alone. It was the only way the Army could be sure that the rest of the base personnel would get any sleep. Rodriguez snores to wake the dead...
...soldiers signed a petition to the C.O. to billet Rodriguez alone. "I guess I have had more shoes thrown at me than any man in the Army," Rodriguez recalls with mixed sadness and pride. "Even when we went out for battle drill and all dug foxholes together to sleep in, it was the old story. When I woke in the morning everybody else had got out and dug themselves another foxhole...