Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room's occupants, Nathaniel P. Ching '55 and Edward L. Ballantyne '55, were out when the blaze began, at about 10:45. The third occupant, Samuel A. Adams '55, was asleep at the time, and was aroused by a neighbor, Charles II. Kivett...
Into a Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Seoul stumped Korea's leathery old President Syngman Rhee for a quick look around. He peeked into the tile-roofed monk's residence attached to the temple, and was scandalized to find a woman asleep. It was his wife, explained the monk, and there were four children. "I thought," snapped Rhee, "that Buddhist monks are supposed to be unmarried. How long has this been going on?" The embarrassed man muttered the classic excuse: "All the monks are doing...
...hockey game with the fifth-place New York Rangers last week, Bernard ("Boom-Boom") Geoffrion, famed young right wing of the league-leading Montreal Canadiens, seemed half asleep most of the time. But in the first period he fed an assist to the Canadiens' Bert Olmstead (one point for Geoffrion) and in the third period he scored a goal himself, a blazing 30-footer (another point). This brought his total points this year to 35 and his goals to 21-high for the league. Boom-Boom's 21st goal meant cash to him. His base pay is about...
...whole day Churchill moved amid cheers, gifts and high praise. He called on the Queen (who opened Parliament, then departed to leave the stage to her first minister), was toasted in champagne and received two pairs of antique silver coasters. That night he fell asleep to the singing of "For he's a Jolly Good Fellow" from the crowds who had clustered all day outside 10 Downing Street...
Zola denied there was any advantage in studying in bed and added that the increased time for study was counteracted by the increased difficulty of concentrating. "Besides," he added, "most courses, taken on the horizontal, tend to make me fall asleep...