Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife. Will grew up in the heavy-lidded town of Galloway, and settled down to the job of night clerk in the hotel. He did not drink or smoke, and never had much to say. He proposed to a complaisant girl named Opal, who let him (and others) sleep with her, but she turned him down...
...called Petroleum Development (Qatar) Ltd. It dragged in equipment, pitched tents, and started exploring for oil. By the time war broke out in 1939, Qatar was ready to begin production. The British ordered the wells jammed, to prevent their capture and use by the enemy; Qatar went back to sleep...
...faced cop tried again. He discovered that the men lived in Gary, Ind., and thought they were still in Gary. The doctor announced that they were not seriously hurt, so the police decided to let them sleep in jail for a few hours, then stake them to carfare home. The English-speaking Serb shook off the guiding arm of a cop. "I go myself, gladly," he said. "Here is freedom and democratsia...
...came off the pile at Sears-which it did. He munches, instead of smokes, cigarettes. Despite his breakneck pace, Wood is still pink-cheeked and healthy; his 180 lb., 5 ft. 9½-in. frame is tough as rawhide. His simple formula: "A good night's sleep, a good appetite and sound elimination are a man's chief concern...
...What Money Can't Buy." Cronin was bone poor when he attended the University of Glasgow Medical School after World War I (in which he served with a destroyer patrol). But he was all set to "work, work, work . . . live on air, sleep in the park, sing in the streets, do anything ... to enable me to take my doctor's degree." Proud of "my critical faculties," adept in finding "objections to the immortality of the individual soul," Cronin was nonetheless "too much of a coward" to be an avowed atheist, too much of a fighter to settle into...