Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill to revise the Atomic Energy Act. His move so irritated a minority of liberals that they launched into a 13-day filibuster. Knowland, who loves a good fight, was unbothered. One morning during the filibuster he arose from his office couch after a few hours' sleep and rushed forth announcing happily: "Boy, will we give 'em a fight today." In the end, the filibuster was broken-but the Senate had wasted a lot of time...
Budapest-born Arthur Koestler was the first to dramatize the theory that a strong shot of ideological doubletalk, administered with a minimum of sleep, was enough to persuade an old Communist to confess to, and even agree to be shot for, errors he had not committed. Though a brilliant anti-Communist novel, Koestler's Darkness at Noon left the lingering impression that the Communist inquisitors won by superior cunning...
Died. Ruth Draper, 72, who dazzled New York and London audiences with her lavishly peopled monologues for more than 40 years, impersonated a Scottish immigrant, Maine swamp Yankees and rubbernecking American tourists with sympathetic satire; in her sleep, five days after she opened a four-week Broadway engagement; in Manhattan...
...prophetic. The convulsions began, and the bright spirit slowly burned away. Nothing was spared, for there even came a day when Gabby's blood count suddenly became normal; her liver improved; the swelling in her abdomen began shrinking. But it was a false dawn and, watching the child sleep with her fine bones showing through the silvery pallor of her face, the mother thought: "I could sometimes see the unfamiliar but strangely beautiful mask of death already being tried...
Galloway, who was on his way to New York, was preparing to go to sleep when the driver applied the brakes. He, like most of the passengers, was thrown to the floor...