Word: slumbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right-hand signal of Big Tex-a 52-ft.-high drugstore cowboy statue giving directions in a mechanical voice that sounds like a blend of Charlton Heston and Chill Wills. Then you come upon the preserve of the second Texas: the livestock exhibitions. In the Swine Building, Brobdingnagian hogs slumber peacefully in their stalls. Photographs of the various Quality Pork Champions are posted on a bulletin board in two neat rows, like so many Miss Rheingold winners on a barroom wall. The most frenetic activity takes place in the Livestock Pavilion, where coveralled owners lavish on their animals care that...
...years sleep researchers have suspected-in the face of considerable doubt-that learning during slumber is a possibility. Now scientists have come up with what they believe to be the first clear-cut evidence that such effortless learning can take place...
...witness to his death. Up into the hills go the old man and the young as the sky grows darker. Having reached a clearing, Old Lodge Skins does a farewell dance to the gray sky. He finishes. He lies down. Just before he shuts his eyes for his final slumber, he speaks once more to God. "Take care of my son here," he says. "See that he doesn't go crazy...
...tone of the evening hovered somewhere between shlock and slumber. The show got off to a nervous opening, with a somewhat tense local host introducing the master of ceremonies of the evening not once but twice as "Al Clap." Cartoonist Capp ignored that, launching into a brief monologue that included the evening's best one-liners: "Who would ever have thought you could elect a conservative from New York [Senator-elect James Buckley]? It used to be that you only admitted to being a conservative to your rabbi or priest or family doctor. Now it is legal to practice...
...forbid that we should have violence. God forbid that we should disturb the slumber of rational discourse on Capitol Hill. God forbid that we should...