Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman who intends to center most of his activities in the House, Winthrop is perhaps not the best choice. But for the man who already has strong outside interests and is looking for a place to eat, sleep, study and live comfortably in a free, easy-going atmosphere Winthrop fills the bill quite well
...briefly what each speaker said and thereby give those readers who were not present something to think about. Brief restatement requires paraphrase, not quotation. The latter calls too often for further comment, and those words that are all things to all men, like "departmentalization," only put the reader to sleep. You cannot afford to neglect this matter of style, despite your deadlines. It should be a concern second only to deciding which news is most useful to a community representing, so many different interests. Angus Stewart Fletcher...
Memo at Dawn. By chance that morning, Eisenhower's sleep was restless. Up at 6 a.m., half an hour earlier than usual, he read the memo left for him. The presidential day that followed was crammed with urgent consultation...
...change from Stalin to Malenkov & Co. might bring changes of tactics, a more pressing threat or a more cunning effort to lull the anti-Communist world to sleep. But the Kremlin and all that it stood for endured, essentially unchanged in its meaning and its menace...
...Sleep Well. One after the other the Old Bolshevik leaders confessed and were led away to be shot. The purge reached its peak in 1937 when the Soviet's leading generals were secretly tried, and together with thousands of Red army officers, including all but twelve members of the general staff, were shot. But the trials were only a fraction of the picture. The GPU reached out into every small town and village, arresting minor party members, doctors, engineers, professional men & women, beating them into confessions of sabotage and treachery. In 1938 Stalin called a halt, ordered a purge...