Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body-surface burns in a boiler explosion. His dressings could only be changed under anesthesia; he feared moving his painfully burned hands and fingers. The Southwestern team started daily hypnosis; shunning narcotics, the patient obediently began to exercise his hands as instructed every 30 minutes, even in his sleep, until the doctors stopped him with a posthypnotic order...
...number of local girls attended the affair, and as Eze describes it. "One of them drank so much that she went into the ladies' room and went to sleep right there. The others forgot about her until much later when they returned to the Hall about two o'clock yelling for 'Peggy! Peggy!" Eze and his friends still call the party the "Peggy" affair...
Study, Study & Sleep. Next morning, up and through breakfast by 9, the prince began a strict schedule which will occupy his weekday life for the next six or seven months. Every morning he will take two lessons in mathematics, one gymnastic lesson and one long lesson in classics. After lunch he rests briefly, then goes to Madrid's Club de Campo (a businessman's club, so that he can mingle with other than bluebloods). where he spends the next two hours in princely recreation, mostly horseback riding, but also golf and tennis. Late in the afternoon he returns...
...version of "Happy Birthday to You." On the Dutch border, smiling customs guards waved her steel-grey Sunbeam across the frontier. All along the way well-wishers gave her flowers, which she tossed into the rear seat where one of her co-drivers, Mrs. Anne Hall, was trying to sleep. "If we have an accident, you'll look good in all those flowers," said Sheila...
Bone-weary from only six hours' sleep in three days, but having lost precious few points along the way, Sheila pulled into Monte Carlo along with 270 other finishers. There, after the long haul across Europe, the leaders put their cars through another ordeal: an exacting series of starts and stops, parking and braking tests, on the devilish Col de Braus, a steep circuit that climbs through the mountains behind Monte Carlo...