Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What would such a victory be? Not simple "containment" of Soviet Russia. For a contained Russia, still conspiratorial, still bent on world conquest, still atomically armed, would remain a dangerous and treacherous Russia, letting no free man sleep soundly. What the U.S. wanted was a world in which men could sleep in peace...
...rivalry is begun in the freshman year Sewcomers to the North Woods must eat and sleep together, must wear green beanies together, and must fight together until they are sophomores. Then they must stick together as vigilantes to make sure the new freshman do what they...
...early enough to work before breakfast. But except on rare occasions, his famed two-mile morning hikes are now a thing of the past-abandoned under the stress of White House toil, and at the urging of White House physician General Wallace Graham to get the President to sleep a little later in the morning. Last week sharp-eyed reporters noted another alteration in the President's personal routine-after years of folding his breast-pocket handkerchief so that four geometrically perfect points protruded, he appeared with a quarter inch of straight, unfolded cloth peeping casually into view...
...three weeks, we waited. I didn't sleep a single night. I quarreled with my family, who wanted me to stay, but we had made our decision. On a moonlit night, the three of us met in the town and headed through the fields for the frontier. We were 20 yards from the border when someone began whistling in Morse code to the border guard. So we crept swiftly back to town. The next night we made...
...noted with disillusionment, "were made mostly of dirt." From his uncle he learned a modification of Quakerism: "Turn your other cheek once, but if he smites it, then punch him!" From Cornishmen in the Southwest goldfields he learned fine points that had been neglected at Stanford engineering school. (To sleep warm in a wet mine, curl up in a steel wheelbarrow heated by several candles underneath.) At 23, he was helping a British mining firm claw gold out of western Australia; at 25, he had traveled around the world twice, was earning $20,000 a year as the firm...