Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roistering, rampaging years, Francisco Villa, the cattle rustler and mule driver from Durango, was the joy and terror of the Mexican Revolution. "Pancho" Villa, Mexicans said, could "march 100 miles without stopping, live 100 days without food, go 100 nights without sleep, and kill 100 men without remorse." But by 1920, after fighting and looting across two-thirds of Mexico, leading howling cavalry charges to please a U.S. movie cameraman, burning the New Mexico town of Columbus, dodging General Pershing's avenging army and capturing Mexico City itself, Villa was outfought by the government's methodical General Alvaro...
...Water Jag. The shortest interrogation ran three hours, several lasted a grueling 15. Officially, prisoners slept between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., but Stypulkowski was hauled out of bed 69 nights out of 70. Sleep at any time was a virtual miracle. A lumpy mattress and a single blanket left him aching and cold. By prison rules, hands had to be kept outside the blanket, and a naked light bulb was always trained on his head. Any attempt to tuck in frozen fingers or face away from the light brought a barked reprimand from the guard at the peephole...
...divorce from her radio actor husband, Actress Agnes Moorehead, 44, had a witness define her charges of cruelty. Her husband, said her former houseman, called his wife dirty names, revved up the radio and slammed doors every time she tried to study her scripts, forced her to sleep in his room, pointed his antique firearms at her, left empty whiskey bottles around the lawn and in the grandfather clock. "It was just too much to bear," said Agnes...
...Into A Sleep of Prisoners, Quakerish Playwright Fry has done his earnest best to pack a van load of meaning about the state of modern man. Four prisoners of an unidentified war are locked up in a church and bunk down for a restless night. Most of the action consists of their separate dreams, each one involving the others, a series of merging playlets stretched on the frames of familiar Bible stories (Cain and Abel, David and Absalom, Abraham and Isaac...
...order that its editors may get a good night's sleep before the draft exemption test, the CRIMSON will follow its normal Reading Period practice of not publishing Saturday. Next week, with examinations beginning the paper will come out only three times...