Word: drowsyness
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Into this drowsy, gentle kingdom came the Communists. They smuggled arms from Siam across Cambodia to Viet Minh soldiers in Tonkin. Commissioner de Raymond complained to Cambodia's plump, 29-year-old King Norodom Sihanouk, who sits more easily on a horse than on a throne. The Cambodians answered...
Some of the sentries of the republic were asleep after the war-and some are still drowsy. The finding that they were not traitors does not answer the charge that they were bad sentries.
And the drowsy sentry is no worse sentry than the one who maliciously cries wolf, shoots up the coconut trees, and keeps the camp in a state of alarm and confusion.
"I have this recording to do. I think I must be fresh, at my best. But I cannot sleep. Someone gave me sleeping pills. I never take pills, never! But I take a pill-and I am wide awake. So I take another and I begin to feel drowsy. And...
If a novelist is to be judged by the vitality of his characters, Lewis should not be found wanting by that perverse minority of posterity that may still read books. Carol Kennicott is still with us, fighting her hopeless battle against the village virus in many a drowsy hamlet still...