Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point just short of death; unshaven, without haircuts or baths for as much as a year; men in rags, exposed to the elements; fed with carefully measured minimum quantities and lowest quality of food and unsanitary water . . . isolated, faced with squads of trained interrogators, bullied incessantly, deprived of sleep and browbeaten into mental anguish...
...late, their Central Committee (whose members are unknown even to Mau Mau adherents) has been urging terrorist action in Nairobi itself, which in the first days of the emergency was relatively safe. In the capital's stinking slums, 100,000 Kikuyu (most of them not Mau Mau) sleep where they can. rocking their babies in sacks that are festooned around mud-hut walls. Fortnight ago, Mau Mau sent a message to these teeming slums: "Africans will stop using mzungu [white-owned] buses, and will stop smoking cigarettes." For emphasis, they strangled one bus-using, cigarette-smoking Kikuyu and tossed...
...passed in the same manner. Finally arriving at the hotel, we were accompanied to the room by three armed guides. Once inside they showed no signs of leaving. "Do you suppose we're all spending the night together?" one of the NEWS girls said. "Planning to sleep here or next door...
...Coronary patients who think they can stave off further attacks by unnatural idleness are mistaken, said Manhattan's Dr. Arthur M. Master. 'Of 2,200 heart attacks, he found, 23% occurred during sleep, 29% while at rest, 24% during mild activity, 13% during walking at an ordinary pace, 9% during moderate activity and only 2% during unusual exertion. ¶ Basing his judgment more on "clinical sense" than on statistical proofs, Boston's Dr. Richard H. Overholt advised: "If you have a family history of cancer of any kind, don't smoke, but if you have...
Panacea. In Houston, the federal D.A. filed suit to seize and condemn 1,100 pills stocked by the McDonald Prescription Laboratories, Inc., which advertised that the product would temporarily relieve "physical strain...nervous tension, excessive alcoholism, loss of sleep...laziness," and would also make the user "feel good and look better and nicer...