Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coach Dolph Samborski hasn't lost much sleep in deciding who's going to play in the outfield. The decision is only in choosing the best men from a talented batch...
Prisoner Strong was examined by a woman doctor, then locked in a solitary cell with a peephole through which guards could watch her. A bright light glared down in her face. "All night between snatches of sleep, I faced my sins." Why was she there? Her best guesses: 1) she had annoyed somebody by trying to get to China via the "closed" Manchurian frontier; 2) it was a "stupidity of some department eager to make a record...
...ideas sitting still." Returning to the office, he always berated the editors for stagnating in his absence, then dumped a suitcaseful of "great ideas" on their desks. McClure published the first magazine articles on X ray, radium, Marconi's wireless, the Wrights' flying machine and twilight sleep; he discovered Willa Gather, helped popularize William Dean Howells and Joel Chandler Harris, introduced Stevenson, Kipling and A. Conan Doyle to their first big U.S. audiences...
...played tennis on the slick, wooden floor of the 7th Regiment Armory for the National Indoor Championship. Neither the strange surface nor the deceptive lighting unsettled him; he breezed easily through the early rounds. What annoyed him was the fact that he couldn't get enough sleep. "It isn't the tennis matches," he explained carefully, "just New York. It keeps me awake...
...stand her new husband's cough--after an hour or so of marriage. So she spends her nuptial night in the hotel room down the hall. The room happens to be inhabited by pilot Stewart, who plods through the "you take the bedroom and I'll sleep on the couch." situation and later takes the heroine "way from it all" in his westbound plane--together with the cigar-smoking carnival monkey, the cringing embezzler, a corpse-loaded coffin, and other less interesting cargo...