Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which I was handcuffed and put into a black upright coffin in the back of a van and sped over to Secret Police Headquarters (MFS) for an examination of my body including up my rear end, under my tongue, between my toes, and in my hair. I reeled half-asleep into the office of the interrogation judge, Traute, who asked me if I had any wishes before he turned me back over to the Secret Police. He told me they had no bail here for the rich as in America, but when I requested famous East German lawyer, Professor Kaul...
...Spain is well aware that the country is on the brink of the biggest change since the civil war. President Franco has been showing signs of his age for some time, and his health is reportedly declining. A year ago, he distressed a visiting Richard Nixon by apparently falling asleep in the middle of a conversation...
That fall I put a "Rockefeller for President" poster in my window, and after Nixon got the nod, I wore a huge (it's still my largest button) "Our Nation Needs Nixon-Lodge" button that pulled holes in my sweater. I fell asleep in front of the television on election night and went to Miss Gross's fifth grade class the next morning with tears in my eyes...
...After Evita's death, Perón paid the famed Spanish pathologist Pedro Ara $100,000 to embalm her body the way the Russians had embalmed the remains of Lenin and Stalin. According to one witness, "the body was so natural that it looked like Evita was only asleep...
Possessed of an almost unsettling cool, Blue says that he concentrates so intently during a game that he is deaf to the cheers of the crowd. Before a game, he relaxes so thoroughly that he often falls asleep on the trainer's table. But once the game starts, he is a different man; he may be the only pitcher in the history of baseball who actually runs to and from the mound. "The A's are a hustling ball club," he says, "and I figured I should be there hustling with the rest of them...