Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheerfully placid when she left as she had been on arrival. After 24 hours without sleep, she got on a plane for San Francisco announcing that she had to get up early to see her grandson John Boettiger in the morning. Wasn't she tired? "Oh no," she said, "I don't feel tired at all-but sometimes I do take a few vitamins...
Easy Company's orders were to sit tight near the British consulate until morning. A drizzling rain had begun to fall. We wrapped ourselves in ponchos and tried to get some sleep but it was hard to sleep. The sky was alight with the red glare from half a dozen fires in the harbor area. Naval guns thundered intermittently. Now & then we heard bursts of small-arms fire and the flat, deadly sound of mortars...
...Milland, a married mining engineer, comes along to fill it. After they have lived for three months in sin (but with utter devotion, of course), Milland tells her that his wife is an invalid and is on her way to New York. Lana hits the bottle, can't sleep, demands a showdown with Milland's loving wife (Margaret Phillips) and finds she cannot go through with it. Bravely, the lovers decide that they must part...
...stab at translating foreign languages (Present vocaulary: 200 words). If SWAC (for Standards Western Automatic Computer) had been around during World War II, hundreds of women calculating-machine operators would have been saved the work ot more than a year compiling rocket-nring tables; SWAC, which needs no sleep, has no love problems, could have done the whole job in a month...
Also attacked are the transoms that let hall light into each room while the occupants are trying to sleep. Some residents seemed to think that the rooms were not too well ventilated...