Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Dobie calls Lilly a "brutal exterminator" of Western wild life who somehow believed hunting to be his "patriotic duty." He preferred to sleep on the ground even when a bed was available, and carried no food except some meal and corn into the wilderness with him. In winter he wore three or four wool shirts at a time; to keep them clean enough to suit him, he merely rotated them from skinside to outside, let the elements launder them...
Category. In San Pedro Sula, Honduras, National Police announced that sleep, like alcohol, is dangerous to motorists and, consequently, "it is positively prohibited to drive vehicles to all ... who can fall asleep while the car is in motion...
First step in bat study, says Dr. Griffin, is learning how to handle the bats themselves. Since they normally live on insects caught on the wing, they are hard to keep healthy in captivity. Luckily, they can be made to hibernate if they are put to sleep in a humidified refrigerator. When needed for experiments, they can be removed and thawed Out like frozen strawberries...
False Hopes. Gradually, auxiliary breathing muscles came into play, and Birdsall spent longer & longer periods outside the lung. He regained almost 20 pounds of his lost weight. Doctors believed that, he could be weaned of the respirator. But he was unable to sleep without it. The doctors gave in and put the boy back...
...Sleep Till Noon" is far inferior to the author's earlier works. The plot, or rather the gimmick to which the sequence of events is tenuously affixed, is an imbecile's effort to follow the advice of his father: "'Get rich, boy,' he would say, filling his corncob pipe with cigarette buts I had had collected for him during the day. 'Get rich, boy. Then sleep till noon and screw...