Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Late at night, in his room, he fills a page of his journal with a confused, but scathing, account of his first engagement . . . and falls to sleep where he is immediately chased through long, dark thickets by a Mrs. Mabel Frankincense Mehaffey, with a tray of martinis and lyrics. And there goes the other happy poet bedraggledly back to New York which struck him all of a sheepish never-sleeping heap at first but which seems to him now, after the ulcerous rigors of a lecturer's spring, a haven cozy as toast, cool as an icebox, and safe...
...smashed their windows 15 times, caused $200,000 damages in the area, despite massive full-time police protection (TIME, March 1). Last week, after living behind barricaded windows for nine months, Howard moved out, at police urging, to a predominantly Negro neighborhood. "We were too nervous to eat or sleep," he said. "We suffered...
...police took up the vigil in the cramped Brooklyn apartments of the two witnesses. Police in pairs stayed with them day and night. For both menand their wives-the homecoming was a nightmare. "How can I clean house with policemen in the way?" lamented Mrs. Noto. "How can we sleep? If my husband goes to bed, one policeman sits at the bedroom door and another by the window. All they need to do is put one under...
...twilight at Dienbienphu. Narrow-eyed with loss of sleep, the French sentries peered through the monsoon haze towards the Communist trenches less than roo yards away. All was quiet, and the tired 10,000-man garrison hoped for a fair night's rest. At GHQ in Hanoi, an officer reported: "Lull at Dienbienphu...
...home to his sister's wedding, and as fate would have it, the event falls on a Saturday. Feeling very guilty, he nevertheless goes home and has a wonderful time, and strangely enough wakes up Monday morning with no guilt complex at all. The next weekend he decides to sleep through his Saturday classes, and the next he goes off to Vassar. His progress is painfully clear. Originally a no-cutter, he has been drawn down and has the habit. He has become a compulsive Saturday cutter...