Word: slumbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, it will all end soon, and the Sox will bust out of their slumber one of these nights, probably against the White Sox tonight at Fenway. They'd better be hot when they leave here for two games in Yankee Stadium later this week that have to be called crucial to the Yankee comeback plans...
Nowadays the national average for most adults is 7½ hours. About 15% sleep less than 6½ hours, and a somniferous 15% slumber on for more than ½ hours. In contrast, gorillas and cats sleep about 14 hours out of every 24, while elephants and short-tailed shrews get by on a positively neurotic two hours...
Webb's explanation of Americans' increased wakefulness is the "Edison effect," which has expanded their activities by turning night into day and nibbled away at their slumber time. He remarks: "We've ripped away the cocoon of darkness with electric light." Which is a small thought to sleep...
...Wednesday, the streets are bare and parties over. Preparations have already begun for next year. Until then, New Orleans will slumber...
...Happy Days are always trying to score with cheerleader types; the appealingly libidinous roommates of Three's Company spend so much time trying to turn their platonic ménage à trois into an orgy that the show has the dizzy ambience of a junior high coed slumber party. Adults do not have nearly as much fun. On Soap and Three's Company, impotent middle-aged characters are the butts of a major share of the jokes. The only sexual state funnier than menopause is homosexuality: "fruit" jokes fly fast on Soap, where there is a transsexual character...