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Word: asleep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosalynn interrupts with a chuckle: "One night I was tired and half asleep when I heard some comings and goings. Amy came into the bedroom, and I asked her who it was. She said, 'It's the King.' It was King Hussein-Jimmy had taken him to see Amy in her room. She was propped up in bed reading a book." But one White House visitor, former Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, when asked by the President whether he would like to drop in on Amy, displayed foolhardy courage. "No thanks," he said, thereby not improving the atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIRST LADY: Family Fun in the White House | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...murdered somebody, he may be put away for only a few months. He is either sent home well before his term expires or he escapes, which, as the kids say, is "no big deal." Small wonder that hardened juveniles laugh, scratch, yawn, mug and even fall asleep while their crimes are revealed in court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YOUTH CRIME PLAGUE | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...life back together, but without much success. His girlfriend during the campaign, the first woman he had been close to since college, decides to marry her old boyfriend. He feels alienated from his contemporaries in Richmond, and so leaves. As the novel ends, he finally falls asleep on a northbound train...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Politics By Allegory | 6/15/1977 | See Source »

...defendants testified that on the arrival of squad cars they were either asleep or talking quietly around a campfire on public land which town officials had given the permission...

Author: By Talli S. Nauman, | Title: Mashpee Indians Not Guilty, Claim Land Suit Caused Arrest | 6/1/1977 | See Source »

...Guess he's right--I fell asleep in the sun and I'm hurting already for it," Robert Owens, a frisbee-playing Cambridge resident added...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Don't Like It? Just Wait a Week... | 5/18/1977 | See Source »

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