Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some Sleep." It was a lone-wolf Republican, North Dakota's rawboned, unpredictable Bill Langer, who stepped up with much-needed relief for the Democratic corporal's guard. Langer had been obstinately against the bill from its inception, and began his harangue in the clangorous voice that makes every sentence sound like the cry of a newsboy with an extra. Weary Senators drifted off to doze on black leather couches in corridors or handy offices, leaving a few sentinels to guard the Senate floor. Shortly after 2 a.m., one of Langer's roars, punctuated by a crashing...
...voice was growing hoarse, and his face pale and haggard. By 5 o'clock he was in obvious distress. Humphrey, fresh and trim after a midnight shower and shave, sidled up to him. "I can stay until 6 o'clock," hissed Langer. "Go get some sleep...
...welcome the delegates and promptly aimed a roundhouse punch at the most sensitive of the guests. "It would be folly," said he, "to ignore the harsh fact that while the Soviet Union has ten to 15 million people living as slave labor ... no person anywhere in the world can sleep nights with any sense of security...
Things are different over at the new Graduate Commons. There the University must compete with the local restaurants since a great many students buy single meals with coupons in the commons. Students who like to sleep until near their ten o'clock class will not willingly pay for an 8:59 breakfast, so the administration gave up without a struggle and let the graduate dining hall serve breakfast until...
...present this "laissez-faire" College is taxing those who want to get a little more sleep. Undergraduates lead as strenuous lives as graduate students; let them all sleep equally late...