Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first class at the American Nursing Home on Manhattan's grimy Lower East Side. There were about 25 students, most of them arriving slowly in wheelchairs and looking, as Koch recalls, "old, sick, tired, uncomfortable." Many were blind or hard of hearing, and some seemed to be asleep or in pain. Recalls Koch: "For four or five weeks some would say 'I can't remember,' or 'I haven't got anything...
...defendants testified Saturday that on the arrival of the squad cars they were asleep, or talking quietly around their campfire...
Competing on the side of a losing team can be as frustrating as trying to say "Providence, Rhode Island," without falling asleep, but it never bothered Ajootian. For him, track and field is a very personal, almost private experience...
...Jacques Cousteau. I spent the night pumping raw sewage out of our flooded City basement, while my weather-wise buddies drank themselves into a coma to the pleasant accompaniment of a noisy but relatively subdued gale. The revelry wore on late into the night: one well-prepared inebriate fell asleep in a corner wearing flippers, a snorkel and a life preserver, while his brother wandered outside singing Hindu praises to the 60 mile-an-hour gusts still whipping through the town. Most were still snoring peacefully when I returned the next afternoon, cursing every weatherman who had ever picked...
...first Dudevant attempted to compromise, trying to read the books she offered him, but he invariably fell asleep. They experimented with a modified open marriage. She wouldn't complain about his whores if he would allow her intellectual, though not initially sexual, freedom. In this way, Barry suggests, she tried to make her marriage, which she was not yet willing to abandon, more fulfilling...