Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to sleep," she said bitterly. "It was the sound of the motor. Those poor people!" When Major Harry Hooker, her husband's old law partner, cautioned her in some alarm that there was nothing to be gained by advertising the fact that she had dozed at the wheel, she cried: "But I did! That's what caused it all." She confessed her negligence at great length to reporters and the police - practically forcing authorities to take away her driver's license for 3½ months, and prompting some nameless wag to erect a sign...
...involves writing and sending gifts to five children, 18 grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren, assorted cousins and nine daughters-in-law and ex-daughters-in-law. But by awesome attention to dates, awesome budgeting of her time, and by sitting up in bed to write letters almost nightly before going to sleep, she manages it, no matter how busy her life...
...precocious calculating machine named Junior. He restores Russo-American harmony by arranging-among other things-for a U.S. space captain to sleep with a Russian cybernetics technician named Anna on the moon. Neither Anna nor the captain has much to offer in the way of character, but Author Frederic Brown makes Junior sound quite a human fellow...
...Philadelphia in June 1950. He stumbled into his hotel room and sank into a chair. That day he had gone 36 holes at Merion to tie for first place in the U.S. Open, and now his legs were swelling and tightening with cramps. Hogan tried to sleep that night but it was no use. Since he is allergic to painkilling drugs, his only recourse was to draw a hot tub of water and sit in it. He drew one tub, sat in it a while, then drew another tub. He got no sleep that night. At the club next...
Composed by Handel and set by William Congreve, the Restoration dramatist, in 1743. "Semele" is known principally for its arias, "O Sleep why dost thou leave me?" and "Where'er You Walk...