Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Months Left? Yet for all the activity, some of the rebels are growing discouraged. They lack sufficient means, coordination, complain that the U.S. is half asleep and not doing as much as it could. Operations are difficult; arms-drop plans misfire, and the weapons fall into Castro's hands. On two occasions M.R.P. efforts to arrange arms drops to disillusioned army officers planning to desert with their commands failed when the arms could not be got. As a result, the process of transforming disaffected Cuban army units into active anti-Castro rebels is almost suspended...
...Room, and a few nights ago I had an opportunity of observing at least one gentleman who is evidently in the some unfortunate position: during the three quarters of an hour in which I strove to read, he slept soundly and somewhat heavily in his chair, and was still asleep when I finally gave up and left in disgust... Varian Fry '30 Harvard CRIMSON, January...
...Folk hereabouts get to bed early, those that can still walk. Down behind the morgue a few of the young people are roastin' a nigger over an open fire, but I guess every town has its night-owls, and afore long they'll be tucked up asleep like anybody else. Nothin' stirring down at the big old plantation house-you can't even hear the hummin' of that electrified barbed-wire fence, 'cause last night some drunk ran slap into it and fused the whole works. That's where Mr. Faulkner lives...
Capital is always what a nation fighting to industrialize wants most. Usually, a country sensitive about charity would rather have it in the form of loans, specifically long-term "soft" loans repayable in local currency rather than in dollars. The Development Loan Fund has not been asleep, but it has never had sufficient authority to extend and expand its program...
...security was not all that asleep. The Secret Service got word of a letter Pavlick had written, proclaiming his ambitions. A nationwide alarm went out for his arrest. On Royal Poinciana Way in Palm Beach last week, a policeman spotted Pavlick's car, arrested him for driving on the wrong side of the center line. In the car, police officers found the dynamite. "In a way, I'm glad it's turned out the way it has," said Richard Pavlick as he was held on $100,000 bail for the first assassination attempt on Jack Kennedy...