Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fathoms down, fathoms down, how I'll dream fast asleep...
Patricia Neal, also of Hud, won the best-actress Oscar.* Nearly eight months pregnant, she was asleep at her home in Buckinghamshire when the phone rang; next day she went down to London for a flashbulb greeting at Marylebone Station, with full obsequies by the top-hatted stationmaster...
...tidal waves were murderous. At Beverly Beach State Park near Depoe Bay, Ore., four children who had been asleep in bedrolls were swept away. In Crescent City, Calif., the shock waves sent the sea pouring into the downtown sector to wreck 150 stores. Four gasoline storage plants exploded and burned. Three thousand townspeople fled; ten were drowned, 70 hurt, more than 50 missing. Near Los Angeles, 10-ft. waves damaged the coast of Santa Catalina Island. In Hawaii, residents of the city of Hilo fled to high ground as six huge waves lashed the shores...
Pleasantville. The Iowa house of representatives has voted unanimously to investigate. Many townspeople now ruefully admit that they were "asleep at the last election...
...Falling asleep again, as he must do every night, no matter how he postpones it, Senior dreams of his typist, a nimble lass who will probably leave out a paragraph or forget the carbon. Or, worst of all, he tosses with the dream of the Great Confrontation, the dream where he passes through life talking to friends, making love, delivering speeches, always searching in vain for the appropriate quote from his intensive study of the complete works of Hamlin Garland...