Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police speculate that in both cases the victim was asleep at the time of the murder, and that the killer was well known to the victim. Both women lived alone...
...lawyers, it says, only 40 are Republicans-and until recently of dunning employees to raise funds for the Democratic Party. To ensure staff loyalty, said the report, Dixon ignores "alcoholism, spectacular lassitude and incompetence by the most modest standards." At one point, two team members found an FTC attorney asleep with a newspaper covering his head. "They woke him up," the report said, "and he walked to his desk, where he propped his chin up with his hands. His yearly salary is $22,695." Other office workers across the U.S. may well wonder whether a catnap of this sort...
...Ankara's airport, President Charles de Gaulle's opening remarks were lost on his hosts-because the official assigned to turn on the public-address system was asleep at the switch. Then De Gaulle noticed that his interpreter had got ahead of him. Nudging the man, De Gaulle growled, "I did not say that." Finally, the Turkish security police were no match for rampaging photographers, one of whom got his camera within two feet of the general's nose during the playing of the Marseillaise...
...Months in the planning, "C-day" broke bright and early across South Viet Nam. U.S. command posts received coded radio instructions while most troops were still asleep, promptly ordered all personnel to muster for an alert. Base commanders dismissed Vietnamese civilian employees for the day and sealed off installations to ail outsiders. "We needed a period of limited combat activity," said Colonel Melvin E. Richmond, the man who oversaw the mission. "Operational requirements dictated the timing...
...speaking about the 200 or so hippies who have taken to the streets of Boston, the kids who do not go to a home at night, who keep alive through panhandling, drug-pushing, or petty thievery. "When you sleep in the street under lights, and you can't fall asleep, you speed...