Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the trial Maurras defended the recent actions of the Camelots as being necessary to check the spread of Bolshevism. " We wished to show to the adversaries of the country," he said, "that they were running risks and that others were watching while the police were asleep...
...points out that " China is often called a nation of sleepy people, or one that has been asleep for hundreds of years, but here is one case in which they are not asleep. Instead, they are awake to the profits that may be made from Mah Jongg, and for the time being they are reaping a good harvest...
...George Godfrey, my Negro sparring partner, ever knocked me out, it must have been while I was asleep. He certainly never did it while I was awake. And never since he has been in my camp has he ever shaken...
atoned by the fact that he fanned six. Crimson batters and caught Clark asleep at first base. Young was at his best, striking six men, giving no bases on balls and not allowing any runner to get beyond second...
...bomb tossed for American youth by Anatole France, Upton Sinclair, and Scott Nearing has brought repercussions from a score of universities. The students are said to have been asleep; but now that they are awake, they look about and reach for a club. Each belabors in his own way, but they are knocking, knocking...