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Old Ivica was as stubborn as the eel. He had a big hook made specially for him by the village blacksmith. Discarding the useless line, he tied his hook to a thin steel wire and sat down on the rocks to wait. Ivica grew drowsy in the warm sun, looped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: The Old Man & the Eel | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

The men and women in the cast suffer from rigor mortis; their movements and voices are lifeless, and they read their lines. The play does, however, achieve a consistent dullness, which lets the drowsy theatre-goer sleep without fear of missing a thing.

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Miss Lonelyhearts | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

Used in low doses and for no more than about two weeks, proclorperazine is reported to give prompt tranquility to 86% of patients suffering from anxiety, agitation, agitated depression, tension, confusion, restlessness, senile agitation and alcoholic delirium. It lets patients sleep well at night and (unlike chlorpromazine) does not make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Tranquillizer | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

They now voted. One man was nudged from a drowsy state for the crucial decision, and another voted both "yes" and "no." When the tally was complete, it showed that a principled minority, led by Brachman, Theodore D. Moskowitz '58 and Larry Johnson '57, had been over-ridden by Stone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wooden, but Enterprising | 11/21/1956 | See Source »

Bugged. In Phoenix, Ariz., Tedd Mott was rushed to a hospital for emergency treatment after he got drowsy, yawned, swallowed a black widow spider.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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