Word: slumberously
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...tried for a long time to rationalize your early morning serenades and Good'n'noisy assemblies by chalking it up to "esprit de corpa". But it's pretty hard to appreciate "sprit" at 0545, when we're in our last dreamy hour of slumber. (Science says that's the most valuable hour...
Have strength and courage, ye men of Baker. Lift your weary heads anew. For, come a few short weeks lapse of time, and you shall no longer lose two hours precious slumber standing guard. Hell no. You'll lose seven and a half...
...wild geese, the liquid whistle of red-winged blackbirds. But they were drowned in greater sounds: factory whistles, rivet hammers, the sound of tractors, axes, exhausts. Greenup time was only a pastel shade among the primary colors of the revolutionized American landscape. There was no winter's slumber to awaken from, this year...
...enough in effective force. Since Hitler's job is apparently much bigger, the odds favored comparatively speedy Allied occupation. Once that is accomplished, the need for a continued "precision offensive" will continue. The battle for Tunisia is only the prelude to bigger things. Despite Cato and centuries of slumber, Carthage, long ago destroyed, may yet serve again as a base for operations against Rome...
...trypanosomes, which-for the tsetse is omnivampiverous-it may have picked up from the blood of alligators, hippopotamuses, hartebeests, etc. This parasite invades the human lymph stream, the spleen, finally the brain. At first, tsetse victims become feverish, develop swollen lymph glands. Gradually they fall into a deep slumber, grow delirious as the trypanosomes attack the nervous system and brain. Many of these sleeping sick men live for years before they waste away...