Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excited to sleep during the rest of the night, Elizabeth kept leaving her cot to watch other nocturnal visitors at the waterhole. In the morning she breakfasted on bacon & eggs, and tossed bananas to baboons below. Just before noon, clad in apricot-colored blouse and brown slacks, Britain's Queen, unaware of her high position, left the hut in high spirits over her "tremendous experience" and vowed to come again soon with her father. "He'd love it," she said...
Issue Skirted. In London, the trade journal Tailor & Cutter denounced pajamas, advised how to keep a nightshirt from creeping up during sleep: "Put your garters on upside down and connect the fasteners with...
Although one student complained of ending up with only a loss of sleep and the loss of his car bumper in an accident while trying to get to school on time for the class, the average student raised his speed of comprehension about 80 percent on the tests given. The instructors warn against accepting too literally the meaning of these test scores. Along with the students, they seem to feel that the general gains in confidence and "know how" in approaching reading material were of equal importance...
Some of the prisoners are packed into crude, earth-floored barracks, and the rest live in tents. About 8,000 P.W.s are harbored in each compound, about twice as crowded as they should be. They sleep on straw mats, and each man has two blankets. They are fed three times a day-rice, beans, fish, pepper mash, soy sauce. This is a nourishing, 2,800-calorie diet, on which many prisoners have gained weight...
...Andrea Sinai's chances of surviving would have been slim-she might have choked on her first bottle. As it was, she had to be fed with a medicine dropper. Often she choked and started to turn blue. Her mother hardly ever knew a good night's sleep; she kept waking to hear the reassurance of the child's raucous mouth breathing. Because her mouth was always dry, Andrea's food didn't taste good and she was underweight...