Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once, during a bitter winter, the guardian begged him to sleep on a pile of blankets in the store. John seemed to agree but when closing time came and he was locked inside the store, he set up a warlike screeching and threatened to wreck the place. He was turned out and he took to the woods to sleep in his usual...
John's companions were dogs-scads of them, all the imaginable cur-mixtures. In summer he would come into Pawhuska-Osage capital- choose a sunny spot at a principal intersection and curl up on the sidewalk to sleep, a heavy blanket keeping off flies and scorching sunrays. His dogs would curl up about him to doze or to snarl and snap at passersby. Once, the city dog-catcher captured his pets and shot them. John disappeared for a few weeks, then returned to town with more dogs than ever...
...high, man-proof, woven-wire fence and put him inside. A comfortable house was built for him and an Indian man and wife were employed to care for him. At first, he resented his caretakers, running them off the place with the knife and he absolutely refused to sleep in the house. When he became slightly more reconciled, an elaborate teepee was built for him. It must have been 20 feet across its circular, hardwood floor; the poles were of polished hardwood and the covering was gaudily decorated with Osage hieroglyphic figures. He conceded that this might...
...fitting time to settle a bitter strike is not on a fine fresh morning, nor on a sultry afternoon. It is after the shades of night have fallen, when fatigue and strain have weakened the obstinacy of men, and peace, like sleep, comes to knit up the raveled sleeve of contention. In all respects but one the settlement of the Chrysler automobile strike was thus fitting. After 9 o'clock the evening of the eleventh day of negotiation, Governor Frank Murphy emerged from a smoke-filled office at Lansing to announce that agreement had been reached. Shortly before midnight...
...State Department: "The citizens of Madrid pride themselves on doing 'business as usual' even during air raids and attacks. Before I left about one-third of Madrid had been destroyed. The crescendo of artillery fire never let up. The rumble of guns shattered our sleep-but we got used to it. In Madrid you get accustomed to almost everything...