Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shall Sleep Well." Would this cut mean a balanced budget and a tax cut in 1954? No, said the President. This is a cut in requests for new appropriations (some of which will be spent in 1954. some much later). The deficit and taxes will be controlled by 1954 expenditures, partly from appropriations approved by Congress before this year. However, progress is being made every day toward an eventually balanced budget...
When Morse reappeared, minus the rose but still wearing the same blue suit, reporters knotted around with questions. Had he made any special preparations for his stunt? None at all, except to get seven hours' sleep the night before instead of his usual four or five. "I always keep in good shape," he explained. How was he able to resist the call to the men's room? Good control, he said, vowing that he had had no auxiliary devices strapped to his leg. What was the purpose of his marathon talk? He was one of "a band...
...Dial 'M' for Murder. On the day before he went on the air, Evans (as well as Actors Barry Jones, Neva Patterson and Francis Bethencourt, all of whom are in Broadway plays) had to act in a matinee and evening performance, lost an hour's sleep with the change to daylight saving time, and then began the final Hamlet rehearsals...
...Tested on humans for the first time, trifluoroethyl vinyl ether turned out to be a promising new anesthetic. Product of 15 years research by Dr. John C. Krantz Jr., Johns Hopkins pharmacology professor, the fluorinated ether puts a patient to sleep in 27 seconds (a standard ether takes up to five minutes), has an agreeable odor and a high boiling point that should make it useful in warm climates. Biggest advantage: not readily combustible, it will reduce the danger of disastrous operating-room explosions...
...March 27, 1931, Arnold Bennett finally settled into an insomnia-free sleep, having produced close to 40 novels, more than a dozen plays, and such pocket philosophies as How to Live on 24 Hours a Day and Mental Efficiency. He left a literary reputation and personal legend which justifies Biographer Pound's evaluation : "Like a man of the Renaissance, he seemed to be greater than his work...