Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There would undoubtedly be 200 more Communists in the government if it weren't for McCarthy. The Senator has done a great job and will continue to do so. He won't sleep on the job," the CRIMSON story said, quoting Sears...
...Tadpole Society and a group calling themselves the Friends of Harvard Tradition appeared momentarily on the Winthrop scene, but vanished as quickly as they had come. The house has a minimum of such groups. Generally students are delighted to eat, sleep, and relax within the walls of Standish and Gore halls and go outside for other amusements...
...pitched into Christian Democratic politics, was soon on the party's three-man executive board, the recognized leader of its strong Catholic right wing, and one of Adenauer's busiest campaign speakers. (Wurmeling, his wife recalls, campaigned so hard that "he used to give speeches in his sleep.") After the last election. Adenauer repaid the debt by creating the Ministry for Family Affairs and commissioning Franz-Josef Wurmeling to try to promote for Germany's morals the kind of recovery the economists and politicians have achieved in material affairs...
...Coffee. Once regarded as a very tough character. Private Eye Philip Marlowe seems a rather mellow and gentlemanly sleuth these days, especially when measured against Mickey Spillane's neo-Neanderthal Mike Hammer. For one thing, the years have been kind to Marlowe. Introduced in 1939 (in The Big Sleep) as 33, he is still only 42, still trim and lithe. When the pace gets too hectic, Marlowe heads for the kitchen and makes coffee: "Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The lifeblood of tired men." But he is far from the pipe-and-slippers stage...
...cellmate, "the Preacher." The Preacher is a pathological killer and a religious fanatic, a kind of evangelistic Bluebeard who murders widows for their mite, but has been caught, so far, only for stealing a car. And before he dies, Ben Harper, mumbling in his sleep, gives the Preacher a hint: "And a little child shall lead them...