Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rasped. "Scrapped ships will not rest peacefully in deep blue waters beside the gallant Lexington, Wasp, Hornet, Houston, Atlanta, and all the brave others. Our Navy must remain strong!" Last week, on Fishers Island in the peaceful grey waters of Long Island Sound, Bull Halsey, 76, died in his sleep of a heart attack...
...informants thought they were associated with periods of anxiety. (In his own case, three out of four occurred in one night when he was trying to stay alert for a cry from one of his children who had an ear infection.) All the jerks came before deep sleep...
Some neurologists have equated the jerks with epilepsy, but since they are so nearly universal, Dr. Oswald doubts the connection. Anti-convulsion drugs are sometimes prescribed for severe cases; if they work, it is probably because they bring on deep sleep faster. Reassurance, suggests Dr. Oswald, may also be a good prescription...
...duly warned that beauty is illusory and appearance unimportant; he also learned that his vows would not be strict prohibitions, but he was asked to promise that he "would try" not to kill, steal, touch the opposite sex, lie, get drunk, eat after noontime, dance or sing, use cosmetics, sleep in a comfortable bed, handle money. He was now ready to be ordained...
Died. The Rev. George Bolton, 59, British-born pastor (1942-59) of the Christian Herald's Bowery Mission, a onetime gambler who wandered aimlessly from city to city, was picked up by a pastor in a Bowery basement where he had gone to sleep; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Restored and reunited with the wife he deserted in England 14 years before, Bolton turned to helping others, called his congregation of penniless wanderers the "most desperate, most defeated, most faithful in the world," established a "halfway" center to prepare them for a return to normal society...