Word: drowsyness
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At dusk on a drowsy Sunday, reporters filed hurriedly past the guards at the Atomic Energy Commission building in Washington for a special announcement. The announcement was muffled in the AEC's usual cautious language, but its import was still overwhelming: the U.S. has succeeded in a test explosion...
The real Tom Sawyer was very like the real Mark Twain, a redheaded little river rascal named Sam Clemens, with a gleam in his eye and a snake in his pocket, who lived in the drowsy Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Mo. in the 1840s. In Sam Clemens of Hannibal...
On either side of the Danube, in the Altenburg district of Lower Austria, there is a stretch of dense willow forests, impenetrable scrub, reed-grown marshes and drowsy backwaters. Red and roe deer, herons and cormorants hunt there. Muskrats come down from Bohemia, and heavy-bodied stags recall the days...
John Ringling North lives as much like his uncle as he can. He, too, sleeps till noon or later, and is torpid and drowsy till evening. By midnight he is fully awake, and his best hours run on from then till 5 or 6. Around the circus he wears riding...
It was over. Donahue had already consulted two lawbooks and acquired much homework for the next nine evenings. The clerk was so hoarse from reading the 17 detailed larceny indictment's that he called for three glasses of water as the court policemen hustled the drowsy audience out of the...