Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent 511 days in action, suffered 20,993 casualties (second only to the 3rd Division). The Nazi army learned to respect and fear the men of the fast-stepping "Falcon" Division,* who overran 1,000 square miles of Sicily in one three-week action. ("Don't you ever sleep?'' asked a German P.W.) The folks at home knew the men of the 45th as the models for Willie and Joe. Thunderbird Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's ragged, wistful G.I.s, and the prototypes of World War II foot soldiers everywhere...
...delegates to the British party's 23rd national congress, Pollitt said last week: "It is high time that we stopped creating the impression that does so much to frighten other people from joining the party, that we are some kind of human beings who never eat, sleep, play, dream or even make love...
...life of its people. It is not an important day: the people dream--of the past, and of lovers, and of the dead. They work while the postman brings news of the day and of each other. They eat, and some pray, and some debauch; then they sleep. It is the daily cycle which Thomas found always fresh and with meaning. Without pretense or confusion, he presents this day on two levels, both as the routine of villagers and as the scheme of the universe...
...dotted the script with Anglo-Welsh words, melodic to the ear but distracting visually. Also the same use of alliteration which often makes the play smoothly sing out, is occasionally handled less skillfully: "Now in the light she'll work, sing, milk, say the cows' sweet names and sleep until the night sucks out her soul and spits it into the sky. In her life-long love light, holily Bessie milks the fond lake-eyed cows as dusk showers slowly down over byre, sea, and town...
Impassive:emotion: 1-fatigued: sleep 2-ambiguous: meaning 3-neuter-gender 4-impartial: prejudice 5-ambivalent: decision...