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Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upperclassman may now sleep in the morning and format about the 9 a.m. book deadline at Lamont Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dime Beats 9 a.m. Lamont Deadline | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...Jolson, 62, indefatigable entertainer of troops in World War II, asked the Government to send him to Korea, scoffed at the prospective discomforts: "I been to Guam. You got to sleep high on Guam or the rats will bite you. But hell, I'm used to that around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 21, 1950 | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...Taejon, Jack Percival, a peppery, tough Australian reporter, bedded down among his fellow reporters on the floor of an old house. Shortly after, he dashed out into the living room. "There's a woman in there," he gasped. "There was one fellow kept rolling over in his sleep next to me. I gave him a good push and I found out it wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Covering Korea | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...vast advantage all along: the benefit of Christ's spoken advice from the crucifix in Don Camillo's own church. Christ argues with him, humors him, acts as his conscience. Once, after the priest has knocked out a swaggering boxer, Christ bids him good night with "Sleep well, champ." Later, when Don Camillo grouses about the weight of the church cross he must carry in a parade, the Lord smiles and exclaims: "You're telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lord's Champ | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

Alongside the road, their faces buried in the grass, lay the exhausted. soldiers who had dropped where they stood, for precious minutes or hours of sleep. Most of them had not had anything that could pass for sleep in four days. One stubby G.I. looked sadly at an officer and said: "Major, if they'd just put me up on top of that hill and in a foxhole, I'd fire that gun. But my legs just can't make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: On the Hill This Afternoon | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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