Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report on the drug plan, passed on by the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, also reviewed the previous five-year period, during which Soviet researchers devoted the bulk of their effort to treating disease, especially emotional disorders, with prolonged sleep. This has not paid off too well, the anonymous authors of the plan conceded. Prolonged, drug-induced sleep "cannot be used as a universal therapeutic measure," partly because sometimes the cure is worse than the disease-it causes fever or anemia...
...this pastiche Composer Moore (The Devil and Daniel Webster, Giants in the Earth) wrote a score that is alternately jazzy and sugary, but that in itself every so often sounds embarrassingly "sincere." While the nurse administers the ether, she bends over her patient-lover and croons a melting lullaby ("Sleep, my love") that leaves the audience wondering whether composer and librettist have swallowed their own commercial...
...Azhari's 45. But Khalil needs another twelve votes to muster a majority in the 173-man Parliament, and both sides were busy wooing adherents among the minor parties and independents. Said one cynical observer: "For the next few days, you won't be able to sleep around here for the clink of money...
...heard upon his dry dung heap That man cry out who cannot sleep...
...longest-running team in show business began applying the brakes last week in Hollywood. After 36 years as the better half of Burns and Allen, pretty, professionally giddy Gracie, still slim and girlish at 53, announced that she will retire in May. "I'm going to sleep for six months," she said. "I'm going to invite people in to dinner, and visit my grandchildren. And I'm going to clean out the bureau drawers...