Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scoring from First. "A manager's job," says Stanky, "is 90% public relations and 10% managing. My responsibility is to entertain the gentlemen of the press, radio and television, make up the line-up card, then fall asleep on the bench and let the boys play. After a while, some player wakes me up and says, 'Skip, we just won the game 5-4.' " There may once have been a manager who ran his team that way-the description somehow sounds familiar-but it certainly was not Eddie Stanky...
Hurrah, Boys! Meanwhile, Custer had sighted the eastern edge of the Indian camp and decided to attack. Thinking the warriors were asleep in their tepees, Custer shouted: "Hurrah, boys, we've got them! We'll finish them up and then go home." With 205 men and a newspaper reporter, Custer charged-and the rest is history...
...Asleep at 60. There must be many other channels. BDAC headquarters in Washington estimate that only half of the 5 billion amphetamine tablets produced in the U.S. each year are sold legally on prescription as psychic stimulants and appetite depressants. The rest filter into the black market...
...When you've known innocence," murmurs Moreau, "when you've seen it asleep at your side, you never forget it. It changes you." Obviously it has changed her for the worse. Throughout the film she expresses views that never graduate to the sophomoric: "He wanted the big cities, the bright lights . . . I was just a woman." To the lumpish Bannen she remarks: "I like you to be like this . . . like a stone wall...
...appointment with the Institute director when an electric typewriter salesman walked in the door. After informing him that the boss was in conference, the secretary asked the salesman if he had ever taken the course himself. He replied sheepishly, "I don't really read too well, usually I fall asleep. So I guess I wouldn't really make too good a student." "Oh, you would though," the secretary exclaimed, "Think how fast you could read when you were awake...