Word: drowsyness
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Hamlett's shift in direction mattered considerably to the drowsy Berber market town of Azrou, in the Middle Atlas Mountains. Last week, six months after his arrival, most of Azrou's 4,000 rug weavers, wood carvers and farmers were erudite enough to flavor their conversation with at...
Though Mexico is next door to the U.S., though millions of U.S. citizens have seen it themselves, the country south of the border is still mostly a colorful legend. It is-to many Americans-unsanitary and exotic, the place where Aunt Clara got dysentery and watched dark-skinned boys dive...
Lest my readers fear this reviewer became drowsy during the proceedings, let him speedily assure them that such was not the course of events, for The Big Sleep is imbued with as many dark shadows, black roadsters, languorous blondes, scotch whiskeys, rainy nights and attendant mackintoshes, muggings, pluggings, and gratifying...
Not for months had Calcutta's drowsy Government Book Depot, which handles the dreariest of official publications, experienced such a brisk burst of activity. No sooner had the first 500 copies of the central government's Act to Suppress Immoral Traffic arrived than a flood of customers snapped...
"A recession is an expensive luxury," said Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles to 700 U.S. Chamber of Commerce delegates after a satisfying lunch of ham with raisin sauce and apple pie with cheese in Washington's flossy Mayflower Hotel. "Soviet propagandists have had a field day in recent...