Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard. The romantic boat ride we shall especially remember. Huddled together against the cold off Cape Cod, we imbibed refreshing spirits; there was good cheer in the air. When it was over, spent and exhausted, we would see our dates back to their hotel rooms and fall fast asleep full of the night...
...time Johnson reached the crucial passage 35 minutes after his address began, many Americans had already switched off their television sets. Others had grown heavy-lidded. Still others slouched, fast asleep, before flickering tubes. Then, with the particular relish he derives from surprises, the President jolted his countrymen out of their Sunday somnolence with the biggest surprise of all. Said he, in a sentence that may already have earned its place among historic American quotations: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President...
...that night to discuss the petition--which already bore 14 signatures--and they told him they would meet him the following morning at 10 a.m. "Next morning, I called them again," Long explained, "and a roommate said they were not there. I called later and he said they were asleep. It seemed to me they simply did not want to see me." Long added that a friend later informed him that these two students had been contacted between 10 p.m. Wednesday night and 10 a.m. Thursday morning by a Vietnamese official...
...present a normal facade to friends felt increasingly isolated. Two of the Cliffies interviewed said they dated a lot. One said, "I went out so much that other girls were jealous of me. But they didn't know how lonely I was. Once I thought of myself lying asleep and I laughed. I thought, 'Poor girl, nobody cares about you and you're not even awake enough to care about yourself...
...years just aren't there. Burton looks the same as he did at the beginning of the movie. You just have to assume that somewhere along the line he asked Mephistopheles to keep him young-looking, because unless I was asleep at the time, there is nothing to explain this...