Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cotta studies by Bernini, along with his bronze portrait bust of his main patron, Urban VIII (1623-44), the man who did more than any other Pope to reshape the appearance of Rome (and who had all the nightingales in the Vatican gardens killed because their warbling disturbed his sleep...
...about 4,000 other blacks work in Cicero. Whites seem to have reconciled themselves to the black commuters. "Let the colored come to work in Cicero," says a comparatively tolerant Western Electric worker. "That's fine. The dollar is democratic. But we'd just as soon they sleep elsewhere...
...trainees' day begins at 6 a.m. with the banging of a giant (25-ft.) drum, which rouses them from sleep in their dormitory bunk beds; each room has eight workers from different companies. They don their all-white clothes, usually sweat shirts and sweatpants, grab brooms, and clean their quarters. They then line up for a flag raising, singing Kimigayo, the national anthem...
...enforcement authorities speculated that somebody was fearful that Dorfman might seek to cut his jail sentence by telling Teamsters or underworld secrets. Said Patrick F. Healy, executive director of the Chicago Crime Commission: "A lot of people in the criminal world will sleep better tonight knowing that Dorfman is silenced." Silence comes often around Chicago: this was the area's 1,081st gangland-style killing since the commission began keeping records...
...auto-frame factory. The growing number of previously middle-class families who now need public assistance has prompted strapped Milwaukee County to consider programs to discourage people from going on welfare. One proposal, known as "two hots and a cot," would have provided welfare recipients with a place to sleep and two meals a day instead of cash grants. More than 80 food pantries where the needy can get emergency food have sprung up throughout the city. Says Barbara Notestein of Milwaukee's hunger task force: "We've never had the kind of demand for emergency food that...