Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Feeling with my hands, after a long time I found two boards. They were damp, but they were whole, and they became my bed. They were about three feet long. I was able at first to get little sleep because rats kept scurrying over me. I have always been a friend of small animals, but the thought of rats kept me from sleeping, so I passed unforgettable moments of intimate union with the crucifix, which I conjured up before my mind. My own had been removed at the prison gates...
This is not a particularly starting fact to Harvard students, who have not had their Sunday morning sleep disturbed for 65 years. Since 1886, the College has had voluntary attendance at both Sunday and daily services...
...long-distance call from Connecticut roused Joe Martin out of a sound sleep in Washington's Hay-Adams House at 1:30 a.m. Said a woman's voice: "I think it's terrible." "What's terrible?" asked the House Republican leader wearily. Then Joe Martin was shocked awake by the news that Douglas MacArthur had been fired...
...muddy foxhole in central Korea crouched battlewise Colonel William Harris, commander of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. The colonel was unshaven and bone tired; his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep. A sodden G.I. blanket around his shoulders inadequately shielded him from the pouring rain. "This," said the colonel, "is the worst...
...stockbroker was Harold Rickett, the English Cantabs' amateur coach, who promptly got his men settled in Kirkland, Eliot, and Lowell. Later, Rickett decided his men would be less likely to have their sleep interrupted if they were not so spread out and everybody was shifted to Kirkland...