Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Berlin's Socialist Telegraf last week reported that state-run nurseries in Germany's Soviet zone have been ordered to lull their tots to sleep with a new nursery rhyme...
...couple's political reliability. The wedding rite, which once consisted of bowing before the elders of the family, is now usually accomplished by bowing three times to a picture of Mao Tse-tung. Newlywed party members are permitted to live together for one week only, thereafter sleep each at his own place of work. Divorce is now a matter of simply claiming "reactionary tendencies" in the spouse. Party members' children are usually taken from the mother at the age of six to eight weeks and boarded by the state. Young Chinese are taught to submit their lives completely...
...wife was having a difficult labor. She thought she was going to die and asked for a Caesarean operation in the hope that her child, at least, might be saved. The doctor attending her refused. But Jesse Bennett was a physician himself. He put his wife to sleep with a whopping dose of laudanum. She lay on planks set across two barrels. One sweep of the knife laid open the abdomen and soon a baby girl was extracted. Before he closed the incision, Dr. Bennett removed both ovaries, remarking that he "would not be subjected to such an ordeal again...
...glass of orange juice, and take a workout south toward New London which piles up more than eight miles. At 8:45 a.m., they breakfast. Fifteen minutes later, those that have exams write them under the eye of a proctor. If an oarsman has no scholastic obligation, he can sleep or dabble around the croquet and horseshoe courts. These are the only sports other than rowing permitted at Red Top because they are the only athletic diversions not likely to injure the participant...
...fact, that, to a great degree, is what is the matter with the stuff that appears in the Lampoon: none of it ever evokes a spontaneous "ha-ha," "ho-ho," or even a "tee-heo." The reaction of the average Lampoon reader is one of slow-boredom, gradual sleep, terminating, when he wakes up, with one of bitter disappointment...