Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most nervous generation of Americans who ever lived. The patron saint of the Irish is St. Patrick; of the English, St. George. The patron saint of Americans is St. Vitus . . . The American people are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon . . . That's a sad situation." -Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church...
...Jolliffe locates the appestat in the hypothalamus, site of the body's temperature-control, water balance and sleep-control mechanisms. It may be thrown out of kilter by injury or disease. But where there is no physical explanation for the appestat's demanding too much fuel, Dr. Jolliffe believes that the answer must be found in habit or conditioning. And it takes "time for habits to be overcome. "Eventually, however," he says, "if the reducer is conscientious, exerts his will power, and is, above all, a good sport, the appestat will usually return to a lower level...
House Guest. In Newport News, Va., Bobby Aycock, 42, turned over to police by a married couple who came home and found him asleep in their bed, explained: "I guess I lost my way. I normally sleep about eight blocks farther uptown...
...question, got a variation of the usual answer: "I have, I suppose, lived a wholesome life, avoiding every kind of excess and taking abundant exercise. Until the age of 42 I was a teetotaler. But for the last sixty years I have smoked incessantly, stopping only to eat and sleep . . . I have never, except when I was ill, done anything on the ground that it was good for health. I eat what I like and don't eat what I don't like, even when I am told that dire consequences will follow. They never...
...intense integrity the deeper wound came when he went back to Barcelona on sick leave. To his horror he discovered that the Communists, now firmly in the saddle, considered him a Fascist because he had served in a non-Communist unit. Faced with arrest, he had to sleep in the streets, found himself a criminal in the country he had come to fight for. His disgust exceeding his fear, Orwell crossed the border into France, wrote what is still the best book on the Spanish civil...