Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French air assault on his country, Egypt's strongman had remained constantly at his old revolutionary headquarters on Cairo's Gezira Island. Last week, plagued by a persistent sore throat, he moved back to his Cairo home. He had been averaging only three or four hours' sleep nightly, and had not helped matters by refusing to obey doctors' orders to stop smoking. All week he stayed indoors, and for the first time since the invasion, failed to keep up his almost daily contacts with U.S. Ambassador Raymond A. Hare and Soviet Ambassador Eugeny D. Kiselev...
Know Thyself. Medical science, says Selye, should now make the effort to combat disease by strengthening the body's own defenses against stress. It may do this not only by ordering rest or prolonged sleep but artificial hibernation or treatment with ataraxic drugs and others (including hormones) not yet discovered...
Even then, he figured there must be some better way. His father recalls his coming home beaten from a collegiate meet and brooding over his failure. At 3 a.m., Parry Sr. was roused from his sleep by repeated, earth-shaking thuds. Parry Jr. was putting the shot by street light. "I think I've discovered something!" he shouted to his sleepy father. "I couldn't wait till morning...
Used in low doses and for no more than about two weeks, proclorperazine is reported to give prompt tranquility to 86% of patients suffering from anxiety, agitation, agitated depression, tension, confusion, restlessness, senile agitation and alcoholic delirium. It lets patients sleep well at night and (unlike chlorpromazine) does not make them drowsy during...
...What are mothers like?" Marcelino asked. And the Lord said, ''They give, Marcelino, all the time. Everything, in full measure." Then Marcelino said, "I want to see my mother . . . and yours too, afterwards." And the Lord replied, "You will have to go to sleep. Go to sleep, Marcelino." And the child slept in the Lord, and the light of the world blazed in the simple attic, and all the brothers coming in fell down on their knees and worshiped what they saw. And from that day forward, the people came from the length and breadth of the land...