Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAMES SHELTON, a 21-year-old private from Company D, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, was awakened from the sleep of the exhausted by the zing of Communist bullets over his foxhole. For an hour before, confident Communist infantrymen, their conical Russian helmets sticking up like mushrooms through the early morning mist, had marched along a steep dirt road to a mountain pass commanding the U.S. positions. Wakeful U.S. sentries heard the Reds singing snatches of Communist marching songs as they pulled an aged, creaking, Russian heavy machine gun up the steepening slope...
Backing up the malcontents was no less a personage than Sunday Painter Winston Churchill, who had remarked after seeing the picture: "I don't like it, and, furthermore, if that is the Resurrection, I can contemplate with considerable equanimity the prospect of eternal sleep...
...with the Body! From Newgate's governor down to the lowliest keeper, every prison official had his private source of income. The governor sold liquor and encouraged his charges to get drunk. For a price, a prisoner could get a drink of water, have his manacles removed, or sleep with a woman. "Even the prisoners themselves imposed a charge for what they called 'chummage'" upon a newcomer, in return for which he could have a seat near the fire...
...Kamehameha pondered, then issued the decree that became the island's bill of rights until 1840, when Hawaii got its first constitution. In effect the law urged: "Respect your God. Respect also the small man, the big man, women & children, and may they ever walk the highways or sleep by the wayside without fear...
Last week Sidney Frame led his 100th black sheep back into the army fold. Many of those who had gone before had written to thank him. Said one: "Thank God, I can now put my head on a pillow at night and go to sleep...