Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most Americans are concerned, they stumbled into the Philippines in their sleep, awakening one morning in May 1898 to learn that Commodore George Dewey had steamed his four cruisers and two gunboats into Manila Bay and said: "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." (One who wasn't surprised was Assistant...
even though the show itself keeps going back to sleep...
Sunday parking has also become a controversial question recently. Last year, police officially allowed students to sleep late on the Sabbath without fear that their cars might be towed away early in the mornings. This year no such official leniency has been granted, though it is generally understood that the policemen will be more lenient than on week-days...
...with the turmoil he created, Restrepo resigned. But it was a kind of Pyrrhic victory for Barrio Antioquia's defenders. Said the suburb's Padre Abel Diez, who had fought the red-light invasion: "There were insults; they threw rocks at my house and I could never sleep. We closed the church today. The decent people will have to leave...
Last week, after some 6,000 columns, Ray Warnock missed his first deadline, and his last. At 67, he died in his sleep. Times Editor Jerry Weinstein plucked the spare column out of a drawer, crossed out the words "but it had better be a darned good one," sadly sent the copy to the printers...