Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sleep Can Wait. Last June he walked into the Haig stony-broke. Somebody lent him a horn, and he began sitting in on jam sessions. Within a month he was leading the sessions and drawing customers. Pacific Jazz Records recorded an LP of the quartet playing a few jazz standards and some of Gerry's own compositions, e.g., Soft Shoe, Nights at the Turntable. The Haig put Gerry in headline position at $200 a week...
During the past exam period, however, rebellion began. Some students rushed away wild-eyed after an hour's study beneath the incessant hum. Others were lulled to sleep, dreaming of one-key, acappella choirs. Both groups demanded an end to the buzzing...
After a night's sleep in Troy, the children were as lively as ever, but John Kidder had the sniffles and a splitting headache. Another day showed weakness in his right arm. John Kidder walked into a hospital and was put to bed. Since that day in June of 1951, he has never been able to get out of bed unaided. Polio, which is yearly taking a higher toll of adults, had spared the Kidder children but struck the father. As he puts it: "From active good health I was transformed in two short days into a motionless hulk...
Chief Without Indians. Confronted with the election results, the school board felt it no longer had the authority to run the schools. Its last official act was to close them down. With that, the rest of the town began to wake up. "We just went to sleep," cried Pastor Randall Odom of the First Baptist Church. "We didn't think it could happen...
More than a century of medical progress designed to make childbirth a "more comfortable and happy event" is being slighted in the current craze for "natural childbirth," says a team of four Baltimore physicians. "It is no longer considered smart talk at the bridge table to discuss twilight sleep or painless labor," the doctors* say in Psychosomatic Medicine. "The woman of the day is one who can vividly describe every last detail of her delivery, including the ecstasy of the unassisted expulsion of the placenta...