Word: sleepless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime in Manhattan, 500 members of the United Brewers Industrial Foundation worried about the possible war shortage of hops unless the U. S. modifies its acreage restrictions, deplored "unsocial" conditions in some bars, with an eye on such sleepless adversaries as Mrs. Boole's W.C.T.U., pointed proudly to their good housekeeping in cleaning up dubious dispensaries (resulting in the suspension of 120 licenses in seven States), elected tanned, towering, outdoorsy Carl Baden-hausen president, went home to their breweries...
...base of the Carpathian Mountains. Rolling hills in the background, overshadowed by the black mass of a 3,000-ft. peak; the Prut River flowing nearby. Enter Colonel Josef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland. No longer the same man as in Act I and II, the Colonel is haggard, sleepless; the sardonic elegance that marked his appearance has vanished. With him is Marshal Smigly-Rydz, Commander in Chief of the Polish Armies, equally haggard, desperate. The two men approach, talking angrily. Beck suddenly stops, faces the General, Smigly-Rydz draws back; onlookers crowd nearer. Beck speaks...
...drama than Hitler's bombshell had been, correspondents saw something new in history develop as the week closed. As Edouard Daladier, without giving way, eloquently appealed to Adolf Hitler to remember the dead of the World War, there was a long debate over the barricades-in frightful tension, sleepless preparation, with frontiers closed and armies mobilized, the Pause of Guilt began. Over the darkened cities that had become haunted and despairing islands of last nights together, of work never to be done, of books unwritten, of children unseen, of dreams unfulfilled, over the countless acres of anguish, the ghosts...
...needed patience, ingenuity and a complicated apparatus. For a year an enormous van had to be moved back & forth between two big British zoos to catch the llama's hollow mating cry, the spotted hyena's angry laugh, the binturong's exhibitionist catcall. Koch spent some sleepless nights...
...Shawneetown. When it became obvious that the Ohio would spill over Shawneetown's flood wall, Shawneetown's residents were evacuated to Indiana and Kentucky on orders received over Ham Anderson's radio. Evacuation was effected without loss of a single life. And after four raw, wet, sleepless days and nights, Ham Anderson went home...