Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vesting rights in say, unfertilized ova. And it is striking that where the capacity for rationality is definitely lost, as in the hopelessly brain-damaged individual there are very few who would assert the full range of human rights. An interesting case is a temporarily unconscious person, a person asleep. An argument can readily be made to show why he has the same rights as a fully conscious person. After all, all fully conscious persons must sleep regularly and often...
Some of the near misses were almost equally frightening. One captain on an intercontinental flight to Darwin, Australia, reported that after 14 hours of duty and 25 hours without sleep, "both my first officers fell asleep more than once ... and, in fact, I had to waken one of them to give him the approach briefing." Another pilot dozed off while awaiting clearance to take off on a London to Frankfort flight. In one instance, an exhausted flight crew missed an airport altogether. It landed at Sharjah on the Persian Gulf rather than at Dubai, which is six miles away...
...MacKenzie, Yale coach and star on the original New York Mets squad, was more than slightly peeved at the outcome of yesterday's game. "We just fell asleep and the way the game was called today, it didn't take much to beat us," MacKenzie said. "Harvard doesn't have that good a team, a few OK pitchers and that's about it. Penn is the team on top of the league this year. They've played the best ball...
...sometimes invited criticism. He scorned rehearsals, frequently played hooky and provoked one conductor to waspishly observe that, if nothing else, one could depend on Melchior to make the same mistakes. While that judgment was harsh, it is true that during one of his umpteen performances of Tristan, Melchior fell asleep onstage, waking only when the mighty Flagstad fell over him at the conclusion of the Liebestod. But his dedication to his art was such that when he fractured his big toe during a performance of Die Walküre at the Met, he managed to hold his note...
...continuity" rings more of rhetoric than of convincing fiction. But much of the time Crews maintains the kind of control that extracts full shock value from an episode while at the same time making it seem hilarious. George's retarded 22-year-old nephew Fred, for example, falls asleep while smoking in his waterbed and somehow manages to drown. · Christopher Porterfield