Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Boston's luck abruptly vanished. "On the first night out of Bermuda it got rough. Two days later it got really rough. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. My engine quit, but I was so sick I couldn't fix it. The loss of food and rest were doing things to me. The jaundice I had at Port Said returned. I got a touch of the malaria that had bothered me during the war. I got delirious-semiconscious, you could even...
...last protest must be added: the play is damnably long. Long, not in the sense that it bores one to sleep, but simply that at the end of three hours one wonders whether all the words have added up to more than virtuoso verbosity...
...tape-recorded summons that loudspeakers will carry out to a radius of eight blocks five times each day: "Come to .prayer. Rise up to your welfare!" And in the last hours of darkness just before dawn: "Come to prayer. Rise up to your welfare. For prayer is better than sleep...
...miles away from the Piessets in one of the dreariest slums of the same northern French city live wan and wasted Jeanne Derock, a local mill worker, her husband Jean-Baptiste, a wounded war veteran able to do only occasional work, and their five children, all of whom sleep in beds knocked together out of old fish crates by papa Derock...
...life, for man as he is at the moment. That fear even leads you to deny the very existence of God Himself. Oh, you don't have to explain. I was brought up to that kind of nonsense, and I can repeat all the arguments in my sleep...