Word: asleep
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...hardest-working practitioners. Foreman's Houston office consists of himself and a secretary, and Percy does almost all of his own investigating. Says Houston's Bill Walsh, a lawyer who has known Foreman for many years: "While other lawyers are at home and asleep in bed, Percy's out in the dead of night, trudging around in the rain looking for witnesses...
...What happens to a champion hurdler if competitive pressure tends to make him relax, and he all but falls asleep in the starting blocks? (See SPORT, "Willie the Predictable...
...says paradoxically. "I thrive on pressure." He has had plenty. Hot on his heels this season have been Erv Hall and Leon Coleman, the second-and fourth-place finishers in the 1968 Olympics. In Philadelphia two weeks ago, Davenport was so relaxed that he seemed to have fallen asleep in the starting blocks. "I don't know what happened," he says, "but all of a sudden everybody was out there ahead of me. From then on it was a game of catch up." Catch up he did. Scissoring smoothly over the first hurdle, he eased past Coleman and then...
Most of the farmland community of Crete, Neb., was asleep last month when 19 cars of a Burlington freight train jumped track on the outskirts of town...
...hear about this in group tomorrow, the boy thought to himself. Imagine if I told them that I didn't get any sleep because I had stayed up all night guarding against the spiders. They could certainly take off with that. Spiders! He laughed, and a while later, fell asleep...