Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knots, strongest ever recorded in a trans-Pacific race (the Los Angeles Weather Bureau had predicted the weakest breezes yet), the Morning Star made the most of every gust. But her crew paid a rough price for their speed. All ports were closed against the high following seas, and sleep was almost impossible for the watch below. Boiling ahead of the trade winds, the white-hulled yacht climbed wave crests and planed down like a surfboard. The mainsail boom sliced dangerously through the sea. One night Crewman Bob Carlson dreamed that a mast fitting had broken and dumped the boom...
...Street at 14, made his first million at 28. "That's on record," he says happily, at 55, "and after the first million, it doesn't matter. You can only eat three meals a day-I tried eating four and I got sick. You can't sleep in more than one bed a night. Maybe I have 20 suits, but I can only wear one at a time, and I can't use more than two shirts a day. Money comes easy to me-like breathing. I want to do something useful with...
...doubt," wrote 29-year-old Clerk William Borst, onetime clochard, to Le Monde, "that M. Vexliard's work is a masterpiece of erudition . . . but has he roamed the streets on a winter night looking for a corner to sleep in? Has he had a fist fight over a rotten Camembert? Has he had his shirt full of lice? I am only a former clochard but I affirm that 99.5% of clochards drink. The only thing for which a clochard ever stirs is red wine. Real clochards are not redeemable. They are Bohemians and will fall to pieces the minute...
...dingy corner behind the Hotel de Ville, where they sleep huddled together with a flea-ridden dog, a clochard and his wife were equally insulted by the notion that they are redeemable. "It may be all right for the likes of you," said the woman, "but we don't like washing. When it gets too cold here, my husband insults a gendarme and he takes us to the police station for the night. But that's all right -they don't make you wash." A famed Parisian clochard is white-bearded...
...Thunderbird, al though he already owns a 1955 Buick and an aging Chevrolet. Finally, at 10 p.m. - after two full days of transcontinental pandemonium, highlighted by a 5-minute chat with President Eisenhower in San Francisco, Jack Fleck turned into his own bed for the first night's sleep since beating the great Ben Hogan in the Open's playoff...