Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just ruler and am doing my best," he said to himself before falling asleep...
...When a midnight conference at the Rogers Hotel in Idaho Falls produced all twelve Idaho convention votes for him, he roamed the corridors searching for newsmen so they could telephone their papers. He found only one of his caravan's traveling reporters, who explained that the others were asleep, a call to New York where it was 3 a.m. would reach only the janitors. Harriman insisted the others be routed out. Said he: "This is the time they can get the story...
...illustration of their principle, Brown and Wilson, both specialists in entomology, described one kind of jungle ant which breakfasts at nine on other insects. By noon, it is asleep while a cousin species hunts for similar insects. No fights, occur, they stated...
...cheer. When the curtain arose disclosing the 'picture'--hero on a tree, cast kneeling before him on the ground, their plight soon became evident. The hero fell headlong from the tree and lay prone upon the stage, and when rescue came, it was found that the chorus was sound asleep to a man. The curtain redescended immediately...
...Cure. In Victoria, B.C., Norris Harwood was fined $35 for careless driving after he took his car out at 4 a.m. to end an attack of insomnia, smashed into a parked truck when he fell asleep at the wheel...