Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exam period, a semester already marred by negligence and procrastination, and four really rough courses. Then to add wood to the fire we've got the snoring roommate on the upper bunk. Sure, amidst anxiety-ridden times and uncontrollable circumstances, we are all afflicted with the inability to fall asleep for awhile. Or even, on rate occasions, for an entire night. But for two full weeks...
Truffaut does not turn away from childhood tragedy. One of the Small Change gang, Julien (Philippe Goldman), lives with his mother and grandmother-both violently alcoholic and crazy-in a deserted house. Julien steals, falls asleep in class and does not really encourage friendship. His body is covered with bruises, which are not discovered until he is forced to take a physical examination. The police arrest his mother and grandmother, put Julien under state care until a foster home can be found...
...call those with mulatto skin. She was grateful that they weren't there to see--and share--her shame. But she knew that...all anyone had to do was compare her color and the baby's to know what had happened--and with whom.... But before she fell asleep, Kizzy decided...she would never regard him as other than the grandson of an African...
...Life and Loves, published a half-century ago, Frank Harris relates that he discovered that if he wished to have dreams of sex, he kept thinking about sex until he fell asleep. Later he applied this method to learning German. Harris found that by studying before sleep he learned more than he did by studying early the next morning since his mind, while he was asleep, was still active...
...intensive man hunt code-named Operation Scorpio-was the most recently captured: Bernabe Buscayno, 32, alias Commander Dante, a veteran guerrilla who rose from a peasant background to become commander in chief of the N.P.A. He had been arrested only the week before-with humiliating ease -while asleep at his family's rural home. Buscayno was visiting his two-week-old daughter (named Malaya, "free") and his wife Mila, who had been released from detention in June and apparently served as an unwitting lure. Army soldiers closed in at 3 a.m. and Buscayno surrendered without a fight. He walked...