Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time to Retire. In Denver, Col., suing for divorce, Elsie Kirkpatrick angrily testified that her husband wore pajamas to the dinner table even when she had guests for supper, often refused to sleep in the bedroom, instead spent the night in the bathtub...
...true, then, that in the bowels of this crazy indirect-lighted monolith, one can relax, and forget the pressures of the Victorian reality that lies in waiting outside the big glass doors. Indeed, some of the hardier lads can even, I know not how, manage to catch a little sleep beneath the soft lights, amid the soothing rustle of encyclopedia pages...
...Viana lined the streets, the casket bearing all that remained of Cesare Borgia was carried at last from the town hall and laid to rest once again in Santa Maria Church, with the full blessing of the see of Calahorra. In Viana it was felt that everyone would sleep better from...
...after all the others had gone to sleep, Batchelor slipped from the barracks and ran to the barbed-wire fence surrounding the compound. He told an Indian guard: "I'm ill. I want to be taken to the medical-inspection room." Once there, he announced: "I'm all right. I want to be repatriated." Of the 23 original recalcitrants. Batchelor was the second to change his mind. The first. Corporal Edward Dickenson, had already returned to the U.S. and been married (TIME...
...dream of Europe would squeak through-but barely. But the old man in the high, starched collar simply rode up to his Rhondorf home, went off to Sunday Mass, left orders not to be disturbed, and at day's end turned in for a long night's sleep...