Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, Americal Division officers conceded that the base was unprepared. "Somebody out there screwed up," one U.S. sergeant concluded. "The guards were asleep and the gunners never got their guns down into final defensive positions." SP/4 Schulte found a broader moral in Mary Ann: "A lot of us spend 300 or 360 days a year in the jungle. We sleep in the rain, we eat out of cans, we stay wet ,ten or twelve days straight, until our bodies look like wrinkled prunes. The people back in the States think this war is over...
...warning voice but not a threat to lackadaisical players. "You can't be a tutor to a team. You know the saying, 'He who can, but doesn't know that he can needs help.' Well, he who can, and knows that he can, and still doesn't, he's asleep...
...sympathies lie. In the final pages of The Four-Gated City, she had already worked out a theory that what is commonly called madness may often be extraordinary vision-an anticipation of the next evolution of mankind. Like Watkins, she is prepared to believe that "normal" man is half asleep and that only certain "abnormal" men and women, the avant-garde of a mutation of the species, can see real reality...
...gradually and in spite of yourself becoming immersed in the oceanic rhythm of it all, until even the visions of people you don't always trust slip away, visions of John and Yoko and your sturdy high-school gym teachers and the man who wouldn't let you fall asleep in his arms because he didn't like women breathing over...
...forces and concentration of your breathing calm your fears. Some moments your mind is at rest like a field in summer; other moments harsh memories lodge in the kinks of your muscles. How when you were eight, you made your mother sit by your bed till you fell asleep because you somehow were afraid the planes overhead were going to bomb your building; or how once you swallowed a penny or how once you were held up on a side-street by a boy with what you thought was a dagger...