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Word: sleepless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giant Manager Mel Ott was not exactly sleepless over the loss of third baseman Reyes and show-offy Danny Gardella, a fair slugger who has a knack of making fly balls look hard to catch (he often ends by not catching them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mexican Hayride | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...tour through India they cheered him at every train stop. Cried he: "I cannot repeat this performance for many days, and hope to live to the age of 125"-the age he thought he might reach before he saw "the consummation of my ideas." Observed the ascetic, sleepless, not unhumorous Mahatma: "To inculcate perfect discipline and non-violence among 400 million is no joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...Sleepless De Gasperi wanted to continue coalition government. Communists, Socialists, Christian Democrats, Actionists, Labor Democrats agreed, but the Liberals insisted that De Gasperi promise to call off the purge of Fascists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Cure | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Blare Raid. In Chicago, sleepless David Walanka reported a blaring horn to police, who found a short-circuited horn in the parked car of David Walanka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 3, 1945 | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...Bearse talked a Boston printer into finishing the run. On the way to the plant with the page forms, they saw a girl about to jump off a bridge. They grabbed her, took her to a hospital, then went on to the printshop. The following night, after 72 sleepless hours, they got the first issue of the Moderator off to their customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New England Dream | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

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