Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Carolina was gripped by a talkathon mania, and the leading contestants were all women. Fayetteville's radio station WFLB set the format: the contestants started talking before an audience outside the plate-glass window of a TV appliance store, kept on until exhaustion, sleep or urgencies of nature ended the ordeal. Other North Carolina stations matched WFLB's stunt, upped the prize value progressively to $3,000. Sue Huron, a Pittsburgh secretary of 22, kept Fayetteville station WFAI busy crackling out regular reports on her monologue of 92 hrs. 1 min. 4 sec. Then Kansas got into...
...flew over the sandy wastes of Libya, Krim gestured at the comfortable interior of the plane, pointed deprecatingly to his grey European suit and shrugged: "I don't like this luxury. What I really like is being out in the mountains. You know, I can march all night, sleep in rain or snow, then fight and march and fight again. That's really my life. It's purifying...
...asked her to nod her head if she could hear him. She nodded. To satisfy incredulous observers in the operating theater, Marmer repeated the routine, got the same responses. The surgeon widened the valve and sewed up the girl's heart. Marmer told her to go back to sleep. She slept soundly during the hour or more needed to close the gaping wound on both sides of her chest...
...libretto (by Poet Harry Duncan) and music. Composer Hoiby's score was deft, dramatic, highly descriptive, reminiscent of Gian Carlo Menotti, who taught Hoiby at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. The opera had tension as well as lyric elasticity, especially when the postman-lover fell into a charmed sleep by the fire and the wife sang a lilting incantation. With both audience and critics, Composer Hoiby scored a clean hit. Said Rome's daily Il Messaggero: "It is impossible to doubt Hoiby's musical quality . . . The vitality of Chekhov could not be caught better than this...
...also is the nation's most forceful educator. It takes immigrant boys for 30 months' compulsory duty, and girls for 24. Jewish youngsters from Yemen and Iran have learned from top sergeants not only how to launch a rocket but how to use a toilet, sleep in a bed and eat from a table. The army teaches them Hebrew, the indispensable unifying language. From the army's machine shops. Moroccan, Tunisian, Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian and Iraqi conscripts emerge as the sort of technicians in greatest demand in Israel's cities...