Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to be hard to revolve it around John. Last Saturday night I went into her room and she wasn't asleep. I asked her what was wrong, and she said, 'I'm afraid of Daddy coming home. I'm afraid of Daddy.' I told her I was afraid of Daddy too. And she said, 'But if I close my eyes, I can see Daddy smiling, and then I'm not afraid any more...
...fast is that our suite, which is always loched, was broken into while we were asleep. We were virtually powerless to do anything to prevent the ensuing situation...
...unparalleled workhorse, he often did business before breakfast, while many of his junior colleagues were still asleep. Even today, he called his secretary from Washington to dictate a letter...
When the ground began to heave beneath doomed Managua, Nicaragua (see THE WORLD), Howard Hughes was sound asleep in his hotel which promptly began to swoon. "Cool, so cool," as one aide put it, the phantom of high finance ducked out through falling debris and then spent his 67th birthday camping out in a nearby field. Looking for more comfortable surroundings, he summoned a private jet and flew off to London where he took over a whole floor of a hotel for $2,500 a day. A Hughes aide hinted, however, that the boss might soon emerge from this...
TRANSPARENT THINGS by Vladimir Nabokov. The great novelist in a clever book about a publisher who strangles his wife while he is asleep...