Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston had started their first European visit in a muddle over housing arrangements. The men wanted to shift for themselves, rebelled against a plan to billet them all in one hotel. Their conductor, Charles Munch, solved the problem in a hurry: "I don't care whether you gentlemen sleep together. What matters to me is that you play together...
...through here," he said glumly, "I'm through for good." In 1942, when the money-pinched Post slashed his fat salary, he quit, never again joined a daily newspaper, although he did free-lance work. Last week, at 76, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby died in his sleep at the Manhattan hotel where he lived...
...start of his speech, had obviously been well-instructed before hand in local jokes. He mentioned "little disturbances in a place down the line that had something to do with ice cream" and added that he had heard of some trouble in Cambridge when a fellow who couldn't sleep at night went looking for his socks...
...Because she's simply destroying me, the little tart," Mr. Middleton sang out in indignation. "I can't sleep at night any more when I think of her," he said. "In a week or two I'll even be obsessed...
...some of the young women crowd into war canoes and paddle stealthily up the Digoel River. They land at a prearranged point and are guided by scouts to the doomed village. That night the elders whisper incantations to make the attackers invisible, and to make their victims sleep deeply. Then the hunters creep close to the huts and wait for dawn...