Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crossed the frontier and moved westward, begging food and shelter on the way: "When I saw a cross on the wall, I knocked on the door. Where there was a cross in the house, there was also a bite of bread for the refugee and a spot to sleep . . . God blessed me, and here I am in the free world...
Nobody Asked Him. An insomniac, he reads voraciously when he can't sleep, calls sleeplessness "culture's greatest ally." He drinks from 20 to 30 cups of coffee a day (no liquor), makes regular rounds of such Manhattan hangouts as Toots Shor's, Lindy's, the Stage delicatessen or Sardi's. When Tony Galento, the barrel-shaped bartender-turned-fighter, was flattened by Joe Louis, Cannon wired big (250 Ib.) Toots Shor: "Lay low. This is a bad night for fat saloonkeepers." Scarcely a day passes in season that Cannon doesn...
...There would undoubtedly be 200 more Communists in the government if it weren't for McCarthy. The Senator has done a great job and will continue to do so.... He won't sleep on the job," he said...
...suddenly, the whites are compelled to patrol their farms by night and carry guns whenever they step outside. Fear is wearing them down. "We never get any sleep," said a monocled German who fled to Kenya from the Nazis. "I hoped to settle here after a stormy life, but now I think the white man's number...
Almost two decades of Harvard Freshmen have learned to hate the buildings erected at Cambridge St. and Broadway. Since 1934, no man's sleep has been safe, as the doughty firemen race out to one of the 1,000 odd alarms that the Central fire House answers yearly...