Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after the "House" ball, perchance a Magdalen ball, a "Quaggers" ball and many other balls, at which the most sumptuous refreshments are served in an atmosphere unostentatiously aristocratic, Oxford will run its eyes, yawn and fall fast asleep for the summer...
...after all, there were debts of more than 12 billion dollars to be collected. Most of the prodded nations turned over uneasily and pretended to be asleep. Great Britain, whose debt made up more than a third of the whole, was the first to awake. She gave bonds covering her debt, arranged its payment over a period of 60 years and began to pay. Four smaller debtors followed suit: Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Hungary. The others were slower...
...above the weaknesses of common human nature. The truth is, that almost all of these young men are afflicted with a strange malady which suffuses them with drowsiness, so that, no matter where they are or what they are doing, they are always on the point of falling asleep. Many of them, indeed, are in such an advanced stage of the disease that they can sleep with their eyes open, and they go about all day long walking and talking as if they were awake, but they are sound asleep. Upon learning this I no longer wondered at the strange...
Particularly, they hope to insert two festivals for permissive observance-the feast days of Corpus Christi and of The Falling Asleep of the Virgin Mary (which corresponds to the Catholic 'Assumption...
Camels permit themselves but one vice, an innocent diversion of which these pseudo-docile beasts are ashamed. At night, having first ascertained that the occupants are asleep, they scratch their necks against the ropes of the tents...