Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turkey was rocked by three earthquakes, worst since 1874. The towers of Istanbul tottered against the sky. Townsfolk rushed jabbering through the streets, slept in the open despite a pouring rain...
...avoiding all efforts to raise its taxes because the county commissioners who assessed its property obligingly postponed hearings whenever the Attorney General came to protest, held the hearings when no protester was at hand. Night be fore a scheduled hearing, Allred drove to the neighborhood of the county seat, slept in his car, drove into town just as the hear ing opened in the morning, made himself heard...
...Although he has a wife, son and daughter, Louis Howe has lived as much with the Roosevelts as at home, and today has his room (Abraham Lincoln's) in the White House. His health has never been robust and during the 1932 campaign when he worked day & night and slept in his clothes, he lost 32 lb. He takes stairs slowly and detective stories as relief from insomnia, and his old devil, indigestion, which confines him to the slenderest diet, has sapped his vitality in recent months. After his long summer holiday, he was back in Washington last week feeling...
Ohio, "Come thunderstorm, war or election, I always go to bed at 9:30 sharp, " said Ohio's small solemn Senator Simeon Davison Fess. And as the onetime chairman of the Republican National Committee slept, he was counted out of the Senate seat he has held since 1925 and Democrat Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey was counted in. "Vic" Donahey is the only man in Ohio's history to have served three straight terms as Governor. Though he beat one of the oldest of the Old Dealers, this tall husky 61-year-old Senator-elect was not an ardent...
...Paul, Mrs. Martha Nasch swore that for seven years she had not eaten a mouthful, drunk a drop, slept a wink...