Word: slumbering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town curls like a dozing cat on the side of a sunny Umbrian hill. Tourists rarely wander down its narrow, cobblestoned streets. But last week little (pop. 16,000) Spoleto was wide awake, jolted out of its centuries-long slumber by an explosion of song and dance...
...degree without getting an education (I am now speaking of college generally, not of Harvard only). For education is primarily a matter of attitudes. By an educated man I mean one who has achieved a self-knowledge of his ignorance and consequently has waked up from his dogmatic slumber; one who has a sense of wonder leading to active inquiry--and here I have in mind a concern for the truth, rather than showing off one's cleverness. Finally, education should give a man the most rigorous methods and standards, thus ensuring that his inquiry is disciplined and effective. Great...
...Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. "We have already won over you. Your cities and bases could be stricken from the face of the earth. Your overseas bases are yours, but they are surrounded by the peoples of those countries. You will see?one day they will awaken from their slumber and recognize the folly of depending on NATO and such alliances for their protection." But he ordered his diplomats to break off disarmament talks at the U.N. and rejected the new overtures made by the NATO leaders at the Paris meeting...
...hide. Amateur psychologists say that the U.S. is becoming afraid of silence. Music in wild profusion volleys forth from phonographs, radios, television sets, jukeboxes. Piped music ushers untold thousands of Americans into the world (hospital delivery rooms), through it (garages, restaurants and hotels), and out of it (mortuary slumber rooms). Millions open their eyes to it, wrap themselves in it as they drive to work, turn out goods and services to a brisk, production-boosting beat (overall stitchers in Colorado stitch 10% faster...
...misinterpretation or the printer who mixed Ben-Gurion and the deity in your opening quotation ["Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." -Psalms...