Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight, nine, ten. You're in a deep sleep, and we're rolling along in a jolly old bus. Oops! Watch it, we're going around a curve. Ahh, that's better. Now watch the bumps--road under construction, can't you see the sign?" The subjects pitched, rolled, and bounced in accompaniment to Morton's suggestions...
...Well, I've got to get some sleep and get out of this town. Got to get to some money soon," he added, almost to himself, as he opened the door of his Cadillac convertible...
...Sleep Nights." Unable to see any prospects of bettering themselves, thousands of Negroes have turned in sheer hopelessness to drink, drugs and crime. In the noisome slums that disfigure the outskirts of Cape Town, 200,000 Cape Colored live in fear of the Skolly Boys, a gang of Negro gangsters whose favorite murder weapon is a bicycle chain. In Johannesburg, it is the "Russians" who terrify white & black alike, chopping their victims with axes and leaving the bodies to be carried away by the night soil removers. In the Rand goldfields, police estimate, there are three murders every two days...
Native crime has made white South Africa tense and fearful. Johannesburgers barricade their doors at night, and many sleep with .25 automatics tucked under their pillows. Yet fear seeps in. It is an inward-growing fear, the kind that made a Nationalist M.P. cry out recently: "I can't bear this apartheid. I don't know what to do." It was a fear movingly described by Author Alan Paton in Cry, the Beloved Country: "Which do we prefer, a law-abiding, industrious and purposeful native people or a lawless, idle and purposeless people? The truth is that...
Valentín González, a fiery, black-bearded Spaniard, was once a Communist hero -and why not? The man had all the makings : 1) he was a landlord-hating peasant who could kill an enemy and sleep soundly afterwards; 2) he was a fine troop commander, a tough, natural leader who became a living legend during the Spanish civil war; 3) he was a Communist...