Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deployed to strategic spots in the city, blocking off the ends of streets and side alleys. Their main idea was to trap the vagrants and drive them into a temporary pound, but time and again the cornered cows would charge their pursuers and escape, frightening the wits and the sleep out of many Delhi citizens dozing in cots on the streets. When finally trapped, the cows would lie down and 8 or 10 people would have to roll each beast to the pound...
...Seno and Luang Prabang to cover distant phases of the war close up. "Hardly a week goes by," he says, "that you don't do some flying, nearly always in a plane that needed an overhaul 200 hours ago, with a pilot who hasn't had any sleep for days and keeps himself in shape with vin rouge." By March, when Mecklin moved to Hanoi's dreary Press Camp to cover the fall of Dienbienphu, stiff censorship...
...easy, but he did it. We have never supposed that he was likely to get a presidential nomination, and now we believe it is more unlikely than ever. Delegates to national conventions do not nominate sluggers like Mr. McCarthy. Citizens down East who have found it difficult to sleep of nights for fear that the junior Senator from Wisconsin would land in the White House need worry no longer...
...Business School's offer of 303 rooms for the coming year. After consulting with the Freshman Executive Committee, the choice was put in the form of a referendum before the entire class. It was met with mixed reception and by graduation there were many future sophomores who preferred to sleep "on the town" rather than in the newly constructed Business Schools buildings...
...effect of one begins to pale. Though amphetamine is not technically an addicting drug, it is habit-forming. Neurotics have a vicious-circle routine: goof balls to wake them up and keep them going through the day, then barbiturates to still the jags and jitters and lull them to sleep. Over-the-road truck drivers take amphetamine to keep awake, and highway authorities suspect that many unexplained accidents result from the hallucinations which it causes in some subjects. Dieters sometimes take amphetamine to cut their appetite, but most doctors consider this dangerous. Convicts used to chew the Benzedrine wafers from...