Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moon-faced Rene Magritte is convinced that he works mostly in his sleep. As soon as he wakes in the morning, he splashes his dreams on canvas before the memory fades. He is a gentle little man, "an animal lover, and I dislike terrorism, as I worship pleasure and charm...
...will ever know the full story of Dunkirk-"the greatest evacuation in the history of war." Many ships went to the bottom carrying eyewitnesses, logs and records with them. Many rescuers lost "all count of times and days," and after bringing home their load of men, collapsed in sleep and never recaptured a clear remembrance of their work. But British Naval Analyst A. D. Divine (who skippered the yawl Little Ann in the great evacuation) has tried to collect every available account, and to place each one in its proper place within the great, overall story. He has succeeded...
...accomplishing of this habitual task involves the expenditure of hundreds of man-hours on the river, stacks of boofstcak and other equally delectable viands, long sessions among the brains of the squad--the Messrs. Bolles, Love, Haines--and a good deal of sleep, eating, and varied recreation for the oarsmen. Managers get their fun from personally welcoming every yacht that arrives on the river to celebrate the regatta...
...Marlborough goes off to fight; he will never return again ... a sparrow is singing over his grave: ."Sleep in peace...
...decrease sex desire, scarlet increase it. Gonorrhea could be cured, in early cases, by green or turquoise, in later cases by lemon; syphilis, by two weeks of green plus four weeks of lemon. No matter what was the matter with them, said the gadget's inventor, patients should sleep with their heads pointed north, give up meat, fish, fowl, eggs, honey, coffee, tea, alcohol, tobacco, and stare at the Spectro-Chrome...