Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes something special to kid the book, the script, and the other characters and make the audience love it. Bogart and Bacall have that something. In The Big Sleep they are at their corny, classic best...
Results with Chlorpromazine. Injections of chlorpromazine worked wonders. Men and women who had been continuously manic for a year or more quieted down, were soon content to lie down on their beds, and seemed to spend much of the time sleeping. But this was no drugged, disordered sleep such as follows heavy dosing with barbiturates, scopolamine or insulin. A gentle shake of the shoulder would bring the patient wide awake at once, able to give sense-making answers. After a few days the somnolence wore off, but the patients remained calm. They willingly took pills instead of requiring injections...
...later Beryl was dead. The doctor, the neighbors and the policemen agreed that the child must have died of shock and grief. Beryl's body, like her father's, was taken away in an ambulance. The neighbors left. But that night two-year-old Pamela could not sleep. Mrs. Grice carried her to the kitchen and gave her a soothing teaspoonful of ginger beer-out of the bottle on the kitchen table. Twenty minutes later Pamela Grice was dead. At long last, someone thought to blame the bottle of ginger beer. It proved to be well spiked with...
...year, and top students from 16 campuses had come to Fort Worth to take part in it. On the night before, Eddie Fisher went early to his room at the Westbrook Hotel, read a chapter (Judges 7) from the Gideon Bible, turned off the light and tried to sleep...
Nevertheless, the New Handbook makes gripping reading and is full of sleep-troubling facts about hangmanship, from an account of distinguished executioners who committed suicide to the sort of wood it is best to use for gallows (teak) to the best rope for hanging a man (¾-in. rope of five strands of Italian hemp...