Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of trucemaking is dangerous"-especially for those who sleep during the truce...
...farm policy called for killing pigs and plowing under every third row of cotton. The Democrats later switched from a policy of scarcity to one of abundance-and Government buying of surpluses. Charles Brannan, Truman's Secretary of Agriculture, said: "I would never lose a wink of sleep if my policies led me to overproduction of some crops." Brannan had the happy experience of operating largely in the years of almost insatiable markets. World War II, European reconstruction and the Korean war brought abnormal demand. But in a few commodities, the philosophy of expanding production at guaranteed high prices...
...played. The three main characters are almost the entire cast. Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy suffer agonizingly as the captives, and William Talman is an effective murderer. Good make-up detail: Actor Talman's deformed right eyelid, like Killer Cook's, which enables him to sleep with one eye constantly, eerily open...
Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand, In the moon that is always rising, Nor that riding to sleep I should hear him fly with the high fields And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land. Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like...
What does Maugham do when he isn't writing about the Hares and the Sadie Thompsons of the world? Often, he admits in another essay, he curls up with a bad book, a whodunit. An outspoken fan of Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler, Maugham nonetheless argues that the detective story has been played out ever since readers wised up to, and writers exhausted, all possible plot gimmicks...