Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore, the filibusterers' field general, relieved his speakers by peppering questions at them from time to time and bringing up fresh troops according to a carefully worked out speaking schedule. Knowland, on the other hand, was getting little assistance from Republicans, and less sleep. The talkers gleefully baited...
...Geoffrey disposed of some popular fallacies as well. Examples:
What does matter is the anxiety it produces." One doctor's prescription for those whose inability to sleep is due to an empty stomach: "A plate of good thick porridge." Concerned because 10% of Britain's National Health Service prescriptions nowadays are for barbiturates, Professor Derrick Melville Dunlop of Edinburgh complained that "the average city dweller wants to be able to turn sleep on and off like a tap." He advocated abandoning bromides entirely because they are useless for insomnia, and urged the prescribing of barbiturates only sparingly and for short times-while the patient is being taught...
Replied Sir Geoffrey who looks a bit sleepy himself: "If the patient says he didn't sleep, or didn't sleep well, he's probably right. He knows better than the doctor or the nurse...
...golf, but seldom has time for such planned fun. On the golf course, he drives partners wild by dashing off every so often to call the plant. Says Allen: "Boeing is always reaching out for tomorrow. This can only be accomplished by people who live, breathe, eat and sleep what they are doing...