Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday morning, two days before the start of the hearings, police told the early arrivals that they would be arrested for vagrancy if they fell asleep during the night...
...Republican Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York: "Doar deliberately cultivates a monotone to try to avoid revealing personal biases or coloring the facts. It's awfully dull." Indeed, within an hour after the opening of the first day of hearings, Democratic Representative James Mann of South Carolina fell asleep...
...Martha allowed no inhibitions to mar her technique. Slipping into her favorite role of dumbbelle at King Richard's Court, she recounted her fall from favor. Bored at Camp David, she had wandered off looking for a book, strayed into the President's (empty) bedroom, then fell asleep on his bed. After that, she said, assuming the expression of a wounded whale, "bad things happened to Martha." She was playful with Woodward. "Come on," she teased, "you voted for Richard Nixon in '68, didn't you?" A ruffled Bob admitted it. Bernstein huffily remarked that there...
Mezvinsky takes notes. Sometimes he comes away with 20 or 25 pages of legal tablet scratched up with questions, observations. He jots down mood, assessments of committee members, observes that some of his colleagues fall asleep. A few days ago, he penned himself questions about White House Lawyer James St. Clair. How long should a defense attorney talk before he damages his case? How visible should...
...Louw, a typical one planted mostly in tobacco. Louw is not his real name; several farmers who talked for publication have had their farms targeted for follow-up attacks. Louw was hit in early 1973. A ZANU squad sneaked up to the bedroom where he and his wife were asleep, and lobbed seven grenades through the window. His wife sat up and was blown to bits. It is now standard practice here to roll sideways...