Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the lack of sleep, the team played one of its best games of the year. But it wasn't until the final quarter that the Crimson's really hustled to life...
Paul Presbrey, a small, hard-eyed police reporter who covers St. Paul for the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star and Tribune, is too nervous to sleep more than four or five hours a night; frequently he climbs out of bed at 3 or 4 a.m. to prowl St. Paul in search of news. With his luck, aggressiveness and insatiable curiosity, Presbrey regularly beats the ears off his rivals on fast-breaking stories...
When India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru needs to relax, he stands on his head. This is not the exotic mysticism of the fabulous East but a practical way to drive off fatigue and make up for lack of sleep. Last week, as Nehru left New Delhi for Washington on one of the century's most important visits of state, his secretary discussed head-standing with U.S. newsmen: "Perhaps the Prime Minister will demonstrate this for your President Truman...
Peace was on every lip last week, repeated over & over like a mystic incantation whose simple reiteration could drive away the nightmare of war. There were songs about peace and a "peace dance." A patent-medicine company put out a new sedative tablet and proudly named it the Sleep of Peace. Prospective buyers could pick it up in a Peace drugstore and shuffle off to enjoy their rest on a Peace mattress. The first postwar Japanese civilian train to boast an observation car was christened the Peace Special and the government tobacco monopoly hired a corps on flashily dressed "peace...
...Abstractionist Oscar Dominguez has both. His big, somber Composition owed an obvious debt to his good friend and fellow Spaniard Picasso, but its loony, mountainous melee of animals and things was Dominguez' own, a jumble of the sort one sees at the moment of going to sleep or awakening, transformed and made monumental by the order and clarity of the painter's arrangement. A huge, expansive man whose rolling eyes and fierce mustache make him look like the villain in a melodrama, Dominguez may well become a new hero in French...