Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Margaret, 31, who lives in a bachelor apartment in Manhattan, though she still visits Independence, Mo. about four times a year and votes there, is excited about her new job, believes that the regular hours will be good discipline for her. "I need eight to ten hours' sleep," she says, "and haven't been getting it. I'm at the studio by 9 a.m., on the air all five days from 10:15 to noon, then again from 2 to 3:30. Frankly, I thought it was going to be a grind. But I'm having...
...dogged scholar, he worked all hours of the night ("What people who need more sleep than I do call insomnia was a help"), and even when sick ("I find that what I write while the annual virus is working in me is as good, or as bad, and as plentiful as what I write when I can breathe through my nose"). He spent his vacations inspecting battle sites and tracing the country's great expeditions. Eventually he came to know as much about the opening of the American West as any man alive. His The Year of Decision...
...treatment of religious themes, peopled with Cookham's ham-handed menfolk and bosomy barmaids painted in flat, low-keyed colors, has kept Artist Spencer a storm center. Harrumphed Fellow Artist Sir Winston Churchill: "If that is the Resurrection. I can contemplate with considerable equanimity the prospect of eternal sleep." But it has also brought Spencer fame, if not riches, including membership in the Royal Academy and the order of Commander of the British Empire...
...talk to resettled Huk rebels, ventured into areas where two U.S. professors had recently been murdered because they inadvertently offended Ifuagao tribesmen, watched appalled the privileged Manila society where "ladies of distinction paid a thousand dollars per dress, per ball," while "a hundred thousand Filipinos had no floors to sleep on." What moved her most was the struggle of the proud, engaging Filipino people toward democracy, culminating in the stirring election of 1953-a "miracle" in which the people triumphed in the person of President Ramon Magsaysay. All election night long, the Manila radio rebroadcast calls from outlying areas pleading...
Then Eddie drifted to Hollywood, and he still treasures the few friendly gestures that came his way there, e.g., Johnny (Tarzan) Weissmuller got him a job singing a friend's baby to sleep every night. The baby loved...