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Word: somnambulist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English somnambulist once killed and carved up his wife while asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lady Macbeth's Children | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Then a slight warm wind arose. In four hours the ice was gone. There were no major catastrophies, no fires of consequence, no deaths. Amarillo stirred like a somnambulist awakening, estimated its damages in the millions. Four days passed before telephone and telegraph communications made Amarillo once again part of the outside world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THIS HAPPENED IN TEXAS | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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