Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Intellect. When she first met Jean-Paul Sartre, he was a fellow student at the Sorbonne. "Except when he's asleep. Sartre thinks all the time!" a friend told Simone. Petrified, she entered Sartre's lair for a day-long talkathon on her metaphysical treatise. The Concept in Leibnitz. Simone confided to her diary, "He's a marvelous trainer of intellects." Before long, they were playing pinball machines together, going to un-adult westerns, and scaling the roofs over the student dens, with the great intellect-trainer booming out Ol' Man River...
...doors close on the posies. It takes him forever to figure out on which side of the train the doors will open next, and when he does, he is sandbagged by a horde of inrushing travelers. By the time the train clears and he can escape, he has fallen asleep on his feet...
Toohy said that over the past two weeks approximately six thefts had been reported from unlocked rooms while the occupants were asleep. He said that persons from outside the University were suspected...
...bland statement in a Rotary Club speech that he had recently given a suffering patient, near death from cancer, a lethal dose of a drug, after she had "made her peace with God" and settled her affairs. "What I did . . . was to give her a drug to keep her asleep until she died," explained Dr. Millard. Many other M.D.s approved, and Methodist Weatherhead rallied to their cause. But, added Weatherhead, "it is not fair that the community should leave this responsibility to the merciful feelings of one doctor, or that a patient's escape from suffering should depend...
...crime when a child breaks a dish and only an accident when a grownup does. Sleeping and waking are the tidal rhythms of a child's life. Awake, Serioja tags after older boys to the forest for a piratical, burnt-finger feast of baked potatoes and onions. Asleep, he is sprawled in his bed with an impish mop of blond hair and slightly open mouth ("He's saving up strength to go on living...