Word: asleep
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Harriman was never a brilliant strategic thinker, but he could be shrewd. Often plodding yet at times strikingly bold, detached yet intense, he would seem half asleep at meetings, until someone uttered a fatuous remark. Then he would snap the offender's head off. His nickname in the Kennedy Administration was "the Crocodile...
Early one morning last week, when most Nicaraguans were still asleep, Felix Pedro Espinoza Briones, a member of the National Assembly, was busy climbing the chain link fence surrounding the Venezuelan embassy in Managua. After diplomats began arriving for work, he entered the building and requested asylum. Espinoza, a critic of the Sandinista regime, apparently feared arrest. Such concerns are widespread in Nicaragua these days. Since the House passed legislation to give $100 million in aide to forces fighting the Sandinistas, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra has been cracking down on a wide range of opponents...
...unknown planet, Aliens takes up with Weaver, who has been asleep with her cat in a space capsule for 57 years. Fascinated by her description of the creatures, which gestate inside humans and have acid for blood, several scientists launch a quest to catch some aliens for evaluation...
...machines, the day begins just before dawn, when much of Milwaukee's human population is still asleep. All night, orders have been flowing to the IBM from Allen-Bradley distributors in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Caracas, - Melbourne and 400 locations in the U.S. From the IBM, they travel silently across hidden cables to Department 260's own network of 29 smaller computers...
...silent and mostly dark. It is 5, an hour before dawn, as Mario Cuomo sits alone in the small upstairs study writing longhand entries in his diary. It is a discipline Cuomo has engaged in for almost 15 years. Outside, the streets are empty. His wife Matilda is still asleep nearby, and on the floor above, two of their children, Madeline, 21, and Christopher, 15, have two more hours before they wake...