Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dream. It happened one night when I was asleep. It was late Friday night, and the phone rang. It was John Yovicsin, and he'd been having trouble sleeping. "Ben," he said, "I've been turning tomorrow's game over in my mind, and frankly, I'm worried. I wonder if you could come over." So I went. Yovicsin wanted me to do some prediction analysis, and I finally worked it out that he'd win by 12 points. He thanked me, and then I stayed to make sure he'd fall asleep. Well...
...guns, indicated he knew Rackley was going to be killed. (Lonnie McLucas denies making this telephone call.) Only George Sams offered any evidence directly implicating Bobby Seale: he said Seale ordered him to kill Rackley. (Warren Kimbro, whom Sams testified was present at this conversation, said that he was asleep at the time...
Early one morning last week, a Manhattan patrolman walked up to a taxi parked across the street from Central Park. The driver sat slumped over the wheel, apparently asleep. Trying to arouse him, the policeman discovered that Benjamin Rivera, 44, was dying from a bullet wound close to his heart. The motive for Rivera's slaying was clear: his changemaker was missing...
Evenings were my favorite time of day. One night after the village was asleep, the soldiers took me outside for exercise and let me bask in the cool evening air. Sitting on a chair they had provided, I watched as some of the Vietnamese taught the Khmers how to crawl quietly through the grass, dragging their rifles behind them. Then the soldiers invited me to show them how Americans crawl. I got down on all fours and promptly split the seat of my pants, and the evening solitude dissolved in laughter. But the humor was short-lived. In the southern...
Laughter is Lisagor's calling card. He has stepped on Khrushchev's foot, fallen asleep in the Taj Mahal and walked head-on into a lamp post (with bloody consequences) while recording the words of Lyndon Johnson...